Reforming Social Security: The Case Against Individual Accounts

Alicia Munnell

National Tax Journal, 1999, vol. 52, issue 4, 803-18

Abstract: There have been many proposals for restoring financial balance to Social Security; this article presents a strong case for retaining the current defined benefit system and not replacing a portion or all of Social Security with a system of individual accounts.

Date: 1999
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