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Increasing the Age of Eligibility for Social Security and Medicare: Projected Impacts on Medicare and Social Security Disability Insurance from 2000-2040

Research Report

David C. Wittenburg, Ph.D., The Lewin Group

David C. Stapleton, Ph.D., The Lewin Group

Scott Scrivner, The Lewin Group

September 2000

If the Medicare eligibility age is raised to 67 or 70, what would be the effect on the size of the Medicare and Social Security Disability Insurance populations? And what would be the level of savings? In this AARP Public Policy Institute Issue Paper, the Lewin Group uses a detailed methodological approach to making these projections. (85 pages)

Pub ID: 2000-15

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