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The IRS and state revenue departments should increase their efforts to make tax forms—including electronic forms, publications, and correspondence—more accessible and unders

The government should simplify the recovery of money withheld each year and reduce the need for older individuals who do not owe income tax to file tax returns.

The IRS should continue encouraging taxpayers to file electronically but maintain the option of paper filing without penalty.

Enforcement measures should be applied equitably across income classes and types of taxpayers.

Social Security affords vital income protection to workers and their families. But it is more than a retirement program.

Successful proposals to achieve Social Security solvency and adequacy should adhere to the following principles.

The Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Trust Funds should maintain a minimum reserve of one and a half to two years as a cushion against an economic downturn.

AARP supports retaining wage indexingTo make the value of something rise or fall according to ch

If changes are made to Social Security that extend the life of the trust funds, Congress could authorize the investment of a portion of the Social Security reserves in investments

Some proposals for Social Security’s long-term solvency would base the receipt of Social Security benefits on the income people have outside of Social Security.