Social Security and Individual Equity: Evolving Standards of Equity and Adequacy

by Charles W. Meyer and Nancy Wolff

The compulsory nature of social security makes it possible for income to be distributed within and across beneficiary cohorts. Focusing on the Federal Social Security system, encompassing OASDI and Medicare, this volume examines the equity and adequacy criteria that serve as standards for determining how payroll tax revenues are to be distributed. Social Security distributes cash benefits to retired and disabled workers in accordance with past...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313264597
• ISBN13: 9780313264597
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"