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Pay Your Taxes via Text Message: Not looking forward to the Ides of April? A new startup called Sexat ("Taxes" backwards, get it?) has worked out a deal to let you SMS your 1099s and W2s directly to the IRS—no H&R Block schmoe needed. All you have to do is follow the simple guidelines on the...; Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Sexat, Social Security, Taxes, Smart Phones, Free Trade, Operational Accounting, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Keyboards, Cellular Phones, Government, Financial Planning, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, David Goldenberg; Blog posts 2008-04-01
Illegal Workers Could Cost You Tens of Thousands: Even if your company is already mindful of its workers' employment eligibility, you may want to double-check your hiring paperwork. The Department of Homeland Security-issued "No-Match" regulation imposes penalties on companies that don't verify employees' Social Security numbers with the SSA database within 90 days of hire. If you...; Tags: Worker, Homeland Security, Hiring, Operational Accounting, Social Security, Recruitment & Selection, Government, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Lori Deschene; Blog posts 2007-08-15
New White House Details Show the Proposed Private Accounts WouldWorsen Social Security's Finances Says CBPP: WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released today by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released today by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:; Tags: finance, security, Social Security, White House; Research articles 2005-02-04
Efficient Ways To Set Up Individual Accounts In A Social Security System: Financial systems tend to be more market-based in higher income countries, where stock markets also become more active and efficient than banks. Financial systems also tend to be more market-based, even after controlling for income, in countries with a common law tradition, strong protection of shareholder rights, good accounting standards,...; Tags: World Bank Group, Financial Service, Financial System, Income, Social Security, Financial Planning, Operational Accounting, Free Trade, Financial Services, Finance; White papers 1999-07-01
International Models for Pension Reform: The article explore recent international developments in pension plan type, examine issues pertinent to pension investments, and evaluate the global trend toward social security privatization. The goal of the discussion is to assess how these new pension models will respond to the demographic, political, and financial challenges of the next...; Tags: Pension, Pension Research Council, Social Security, Operational Accounting, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Government, Finance, Human Resources; White papers 1999-05-20

The Defined Benefit Approach.: "The article is not oopposed to individuals investing in the stock market and might even be receptive to a proposal -- such as that made nearly 20 years ago by the President's Commission on Pension Policy, to require individuals to make their own investments -- so long as...; Tags: Pension Research Council, Social Security, Benefits, Operational Accounting, Government, Human Resources, Finance; White papers 1999-05-07
Personal Retirement Accounts: "Personal retirement accounts are attractive in the context of Social Security reform for several reasons. One is that such accounts would give workers ownership and a degree of responsibility over their own retirement saving. Another is that personal accounts would afford participants an opportunity to pass wealth to survivors...; Tags: Account, Pension Research Council, Retirement Account, Social Security, Operational Accounting, Government, Finance; White papers 2002-03-04
Retirement Responses to Early Social Security Benefit Reductions: This paper evaluates potential responses to reductions in early Social Security retirement benefits. Using the Health and Retirement Study HRS linked to administrative records, we find that Social Security coverage is quite uneven in the older population: one-quarter of respondents in their late 50's lacks coverage under the Disability Insurance...; Tags: Pension Research Council, Social Security, Operational Accounting, Benefits, Government, Finance, Human Resources; White papers 2001-03-08
The Association Of Private Pension And Welfare Plans: Assuring the retirement security of America's workers cannot be deferred indefinitely. APPWP, as a public policy organization representing principally Fortune 500 companies and other organizations assisting employers of all sizes in providing benefits to employees, remains concerned those practical resolutions To the funding issues faced by this vital government program...; Tags: American Benefits Council, Pension, Social Security, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Vertical Industries, Government, Human Resources, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2000-03-22
The Effects of Investing Social Security Funds in the Stock Market When Fixed Costs Prevent Some Households from Holding Stocks: With fixed costs of participating in the stock market, consumers with high income will participate in the stock market, but consumers with lower income will not participate. In a fully-funded defined-contribution social security system tries to exploit the equity premium by selling a dollar of bonds per capita and buying...; Tags: Stock, Stock Market, Social Security, Investment, Operational Accounting, Government, Finance; White papers 2000-05-01
Reducing the Risk of Investment-Based Social Security: ivate financial markets could provide a minimum guarantee for Personal Retirement Account PRA annuities as part of an investment-based reform of Social Security. Under such a system, the "collar" would allow an individual to enjoy the higher returns offered by investing in stocks and bonds -- rather than simply in...; Tags: Risk, National Bureau Of Economic Research, Social Security, Investment, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Government, Finance, Management; White papers 2003-01-01
Employee Benefit Plans: New Pension Planning Options: The 2001 Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act has some big extras for those in the retirement plan market. The pension reform provisions of the 2001 Tax Act may be the beginning of a new national strategy for retirement security that attempts to restore the three-legged stool of Social...; Tags: Employee Benefit, Sponsor, Certified Public Accountant, Pension, Employee Benefit Plan, Taxes, Payroll Solutions, Benefits, Operational Accounting, Free Trade, Social Security, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Government; White papers 2002-05-01
"Ten Critical QuestionsTo Ask When Checking References: Do you check references before hiring new employees? If your company is like most, the answer is "No." Caveat Emptor! Buyer Beware! Reference checking give added assurance that the intuitive sense that you have about a candidate's abilities to successfully perform in the position...; Tags: Candidate, Social Security, Operational Accounting, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Personal Finance, Government, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2003-01-01
Apply Yourself : If You're Going To Play The Online-Mortgage Game, It Helps To Know The Rules: The article explains that if a person is going for online-mortgage he must know few points to apply, about the formalities and documents that should be provided to online lender etc. It explains about Quicken Loans, like many lenders, used a technology known as automated underwriting to approve the loan....; Tags: Dow Jones & Company Inc., Borrower, Social Security, Operational Accounting, Government, Finance; White papers 2002-01-14
Admissibility of Social Security and Workers' Compensation Payments Associated with Prior Accidents: It has been seen that many jurisdictions enforce the collateral source rule. Occasionally, the defense will encounter a plaintiff who has received social security or workers' compensation benefits due to a prior accident. Plaintiff's counsel may seek to have this evidence declared inadmissible under the collateral source rule and/ or...; Tags: Compensation, Plaintiff, Accident, Worker, Hinshaw & Culbertson, Social Security, Policies And Procedures, Benefits, Operational Accounting, Government, Human Resources, Finance; White papers 2003-01-01
Ten Critical QuestionsTo Ask When Checking References: One should check references before hiring new employees. Reference checking gives added assurance that the intuitive sense that one has about a candidate's abilities to successfully perform in the position is well founded. Reference checking is absolutely essential to verify a candidate's background. Checking a candidate's references should, at...; Tags: HR.com, Candidate, Social Security, Operational Accounting, Recruitment & Selection, Government, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2003-01-01
Asset Allocation and Risk Allocation: Can Social Security Improve Its Future Solvency Problem by Investing in Private Securities?: his paper examines the economics of investing the central trust fund of Social Security in private securities. We note that switching from a policy of having the trust fund invest solely in special issue Treasury bonds to one where some of the portfolio holds common stocks amounts to an asset...; Tags: Asset, Security, Bond, Stock, Allocation, Asset Allocation, Social Security, Asset Management, Operational Accounting, Investment, Government, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance; White papers 2003-01-01
Intergenerational Risk Sharing in the Spirit of Arrow, Debreu, and Rawls, with Applications to Social Security Design: This paper examines the optimal allocation of risk in an overlapping-generations economy. It compares the allocation of risk the economy reaches naturally to the allocation that would be reached if generations behind a Rawlsian 'veil of ignorance' could share risk with one another through complete Arrow-Debreu contingent-claims markets. The paper...; Tags: Risk, National Bureau Of Economic Research, Equity, Allocation, Social Security, Operational Accounting, Investment, Financial Services, Government, Finance; White papers 2003-01-01
Social Security and Demographic Uncertainty: The Risk Sharing Properties of Alternative Policies: As the U.S. population ages, the growing retiree-worker ratio increases the burden of public retirement systems. Is it efficient to maintain a defined benefit social security system? Should PAYGO benefits be reduced and private retirement savings be encouraged? The paper examines these questions in a neoclassical growth model with overlapping...; Tags: Social Security, Benefits, Operational Accounting, Government, Human Resources, Finance; White papers 2003-01-01
Accumulated Pension Collars: A Market Approach to Reducing the Risk of Investment-Based Social Security Reform: This paper shows how a new type of derivative product that could be provided by private financial markets could in principle be used to guarantee that an investment-based Social Security reform provides at least the level of real retirement income that is projected in current Social Security rules. In effect,...; Tags: Financial Market, Investment, Pension, Lightweight Technologies, Social Security, Operational Accounting, Benefits, Financial Accounting, Government, Finance, Human Resources; White papers 2003-01-01