New Research Finds Legal Immigration Major Boon to Social Securitysystem; Actuarial Deficit Would Balloon by 1/3 If Immigration Halted

U.S. Newswire › February 16, 2005

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- New research from the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP), an Arlington, Va., based public policy group, shows that over the next 75 years, new legal immigrants entering the United States will provide a net benefit of $611 billion in present value to America's Social Security system.

According to a study released today, which relies on government data, a moratorium on legal immigrants entering the country could devastate the Social Security system by ballooning the size of the actuarial deficit by almost one-third -- 31 percent -- over a 50- year period.

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New Research Finds Legal Immigration Major Boon to Social Securitysystem; Actuarial Deficit Would Balloon by 1/3 If Immigration Halted

This figure, and others in the NFAP study, comes from official government data supplied by the Social Security Administration (SSA) Of...

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