Social Security is unfair, especially to women. But can it be fixed?

By tweaking Social Security benefits to eliminate an ostensible loophole favoring married couples (especially wealthier couples), the recent budget deal in Washington shed light on one little-known complexity in the program.

It also gives us a chance to dig deeper into some of the program's embedded inequities. There are more of these than you may think, and they largely harm lower-income families and especially women.

They've been ferreted out by C. Eugene Steuerle of the Urban Institute, one of our most penetrating analysts of the program. He noted in a recent blog post that although proponents of the budget deal have been braying about the significance of its Social Security "reform," in fact the change will have almost no impact on the program's fiscal health and will do nothing to fix the unfairness of its treatment of spouses.

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