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The Use of Longitudinal Data on Social Security Program Knowledge
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Title
The Use of Longitudinal Data on Social Security Program Knowledge
Author
Laith Alattar, Matt Messel, David Rogofsky and Mark A. Sarney
Publication Type
Journal paper
Outlet
Social Security Bulletin
Year
2019
Abstract
The Social Security Administration (SSA) supplements a National Institute on Aging grant that funds a longitudinal Internet panel study to measure public knowledge about the Social Security programs. This article briefly reviews SSA's past efforts to gauge public knowledge of the programs, describes the Understanding America Study (UAS) panel used in the current effort, and presents results of wave 1 and wave 2 of the UAS surveys that focus on Social Security knowledge with detail by respondent age, education, and financial literacy level. Our findings indicate that younger workers with lower levels of education and financial literacy are logical targets for agency informational outreach and interventions.