Number: RL30571
Title: SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM: THE ISSUE OF INDIVIDUAL VERSUS COLLECTIVE INVESTMENT FOR RETIREMENT
Authors: David Stuart Koitz, Domestic Social Policy Division 
Abstract: Of the many issues raised in the current Social Security debate, perhaps none is more complex than whether and how the nation's financial markets might be used to reform the system. In its simplest form, the question of how it might be done has brought attention to two possible approaches (1) having individuals invest some or all of their Social Security contributions directly in the markets or (2) having a government appointed entity invest some of them in the markets for the Social Security trust funds.
Pages: 30
Date: Updated June 2, 2000