Thank you very much for coming today. I think well get started. Welcome to all the American Enterprise institute. Im andrew biggs. And todays session is titled what can irs data tell us about Retirement Income. I can imagine a bgrade thriller movie that the tag line said what if everything you knew were wrong. This is a slightly modified version. The tag line might be, what if many of the things you know were wrong and what if many of those were about Retirement Incomes . Its not something quite as thrilling but something thats actually very, very important. And i think the fact is that much of what we think we know about Retirement Incomes, the statistics that drive Government Policies regarding Social Security and Retirement Plans may in fact be wrong. We think we know what retirees incomes are, what their poverty rates are, how dependent they are on Social Security benefits and how much they receive from private Retirement Plans. I can pull some of those statistics from my head. The
Test test. Test. We want it to work like medicare. Help us do that. The choice law has eight different eligibility criteria. We have to determine if theyre Service Connected or not. We have to determine if they have another Health Insurance or not. We want to be able to get to the point where it is actually i only have 30 seconds left. We promise to work with you on that. Could you tell me when Eastern Maine will get 13 million and when maine medical will get 9 million . I dont think its 13 maryland but were meeting with them this week. They think its 134 maryla m we dont. Whatever we agree on we will cut a check and make his day. Is it going to be in three weeks . Three weeks. The weather is clearing up. Its a good time to be in maine. Thank you, member chair. And thanks for organizing this committee hearing. Secretary shulkin, congratulations. I live in california, a lot of new americans where english is their second language. First question to you, the number of latino veterans is r