getBenefitBasesSet: Return the _Benefit Bases_ data set.
In twjacobs/oasdir: Estimates Social Security Benefits

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Each Social Security benefit is based on the history of earned and taxable income for the beneficiary (or the beneficiaries spouse). The income considered is limited by the Benefit and Contribution Base which changes from year to year to reflect the average of wages earned in that year. This amount is called the Taxed Social Security Earnings and it is related to the Average Wage Index. The Social Security web site contains a table of Contribution and Benefits Bases. This data set comes from there, but it is not a real time fetch, so the data is current up to the time that this package was created. In order to determine the Benefit Base for a year that is beyond the last year in the Benefit Bases data, the data is fit with a model which is used to project future Benefit Base values. If no endYear is provided the function returns the data set of measured values without any projected values.