Social Security reform must ensure that the program can continue to meet its basic mission: to prevent people who can no longer work from falling into poverty. The Commission recommends creating a new special minimum benefit which provides full-career (30-year) minimum wage workers with a benefit equivalent to 125 percent of the poverty line and wage-indexed thereafter.  The minimum benefit would phase down proportionally for workers with less than 30 but more than 10 years of earnings. 

 

 

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United States.  White House.  "The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform."  December 2010