The Nation - News from Dec. 11, 1987

The commissioner of Social Security said that next year her agency will be able to provide American workers at any age with estimates of their retirement benefits and how much their families will receive if they die or become disabled. Dorcas R. Hardy said she is scrapping the tersely worded statement of earnings that told people only how much their total earnings were in previous years. Currently, workers can get estimates of their retirement benefits only if they are 60 or older. Hardy’s new “Personal Earnings and Benefit Statement” will include estimates in current dollars of how much they will get if they retire at ages 62, 65 or 70 as well as how much Social Security tax a person paid.