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Thursday, August 12, 2010

Research Desk evaluates: How does immigration affect Social Security's finances?

Most undocumented immigrants pay into Social Security and Medicare and never collect, so the rest of us benefit. If all of them are documented, we will still all benefit. This articles gives different scenarios. - - Donna Poisl

By Dylan Matthews

Manuel Morales asks:
It is always said that the reason Medicare and Social Security are facing such a crisis is that there are will be so fewer young people paying into the system than older people receiving benefits over the next decade. I am wondering if immigration reform would have an impact.

How would Social Security and Medicare projections differ if the current batch of undocumented immigrants (who are generally young workers) were suddenly paying into the system via payroll taxes?
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