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Social Security Reform: Implications of Private Annuities for Individual Accounts

HEHS-99-160 Published: Jul 30, 1999. Publicly Released: Jul 30, 1999.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the implications of establishing individual social security accounts, focusing on: (1) the effect individual social security accounts might have on the existing annuities market; (2) factors that affect the amount of annuity payments; and (3) the potential role of the federal government in regulating the annuities market if individual accounts were established.

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Federal social security programsFinancial analysisFuture budget projectionsInsurance regulationRetirement incomeInvestment planningPensionsRetireesRetirement benefitsSocial security benefits