Sen. Kohl to Offer Senate Aging Committee as
Repository for Social Security Reform Ideas
Chairman will make this announcement at hearing
Wednesday on Social Security
June
15, 2009 The Senate Special Committee on Aging will begin gathering
suggestions on reforming Social Security, according to a news release
from the office of Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI), which said the committee
chairman will announce his plan at committee hearing on Wednesday.
Chairman Kohl will hold a hearing on Social
Security on Wednesday, with a particular focus on how to increase
benefits for the targeted populations who are most in need.
As a result of the global economic downturn, many
Americans are relying on Social Security now more than ever, the news
release said.
At the hearing, Chairman Kohl will call for reform
proposals to be submitted to the Committee, which hopes to serve as a
repository of ideas when Congress moves on Social Security reform. With
the nations ever-growing fiscal deficit, addressing the long-term
solvency of Social Security has become more urgent.
The hearing, Social Security: Keeping the Promise
in the 21st Century, will begin at 2 p.m. in Room 216 of the Hart
Senate Office Building.
Those scheduled to testify include the following:
● Leon Burzynski, President, Wisconsin Alliance
for Retired Americans
● Kenneth Apfel, Professor of the Practice,
School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
● Melissa Favreault, Senior Research Associate,
Income and Benefits Policy Center, Urban Institute
● Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family
Economic Security, National Womens Law Center
● John Irons, Research and Policy Director,
Economic Policy Institute
● Andrew Biggs, Resident Scholar, American
Enterprise Institute
June
15, 2009 The Senate Special Committee on Aging will begin gathering
suggestions on reforming Social Security, according to a news release
from the office of Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI), which said the committee
chairman will announce his plan at committee hearing on Wednesday.
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
issues report on how to increase Social Security in future years