This article discusses why effective outreach to Hispanics is important to improve their understanding of Social Security and enhance their retirement security. It examines Social Security literacy and preferred ways of receiving information about the program by using focus groups of three...

This project report presents findings from the qualitative component of a study to examine American's understanding of Social Security terminology regarding retirement, and to test responses to alternate names for those terms. Phase 1 of this study was a short survey of 1,260 respondents of the...

We study the impact of changing the existing terminology used to describe the rules governing Social Security retirement benefits. We provided respondents from a nationally-representative online panel with information pertinent to the decision of when to claim Social Security retirement...