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Summary Measures and Graphs
Coverage of Employment

Description of Proposed Provision:
Expand covered earnings to include contributions to voluntary salary reduction plans (such as Cafeteria 125 plans and Flexible Spending Accounts). Starting in 2015, subject these contributions to the OASDI payroll tax, making the payroll tax treatment of these contributions like 401(k) contributions.

Estimates based on the intermediate assumptions of the 2014 Trustees Report

Summary Measures
Present Law
[percent of payroll]		 Change from present law
[percent of payroll]		 Shortfall Eliminated
Long-range
actuarial
balance		 Annual
balance in
75th year		 Long-range
actuarial
balance		 Annual
balance in
75th year		 Long-range
actuarial
balance		 Annual
balance in
75th year
-2.88 -4.90 0.20 0.12 7% 2%


graph of OASDI cost rates and income rates by year, under present law and provision. click on graph to view underlying data. graph of OASDI trust fund ratio by year, under present law and provision. click on graph to view underlying data.
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