General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony: Social Security: Issues Relating to Noncoverage of Public Employees.

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Social Security: Issues Relating to Noncoverage of Public Employees.

GAO-03-710T May 1, 2003

Social Security covers about 96 percent of all US workers; the vast majority of the rest are state, local, and federal government employees. While these noncovered workers do not pay Social Security taxes on their government earnings, they may still be eligible for Social Security benefits. This poses difficult issues of fairness, and Social Security has provisions that attempt ...