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| | Social Security |
 | | It is administered by the Social Security Administration, but it is not funded by Social Security taxes. | | | The Social Security Administration estimates that it pays between 39 and 179 million dollars per year to felony fugitives. | | | Whenever the word, "projections" is used, this refers to projections done by the United States Social Security Administration. |
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http://www.justfacts.com/socialsecurity.htm
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| | Social Security - Wex |
| | The program is administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA) (http://www.ssa.gov) and since 1965 it has included health insurance benefits under the Medicare program. | | | Unlike welfare, social security benefits are paid to an individual or his or her family at least in part on the basis of that person's employment record and prior contributions to the system. | | | Social security is designed, as the title suggests, to provide security. |
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http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/social_security.html
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| | Social Security Choice |
| | Bush’s call last year to let younger workers divert some of their Social Security taxes into private accounts never got off the ground with lawmakers despite an election-style campaign by the administration and its supporters. | | | The AARP thinks that Social Security Trust funds should be invested in higher-yielding securities…just as long as you and I aren’t allowed to do the investing ourselves in personal accounts. | | | By 2030, spending for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid alone will be almost 60 percent of the entire federal budget. |
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http://www.socialsecuritychoice.org
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| | Project on Social Security Choice |
| | The Social Security Administration's Office of the Actuary says that a U.S. House bill based on Cato's Social Security reform plan would restore the program to long-term solvency. | | | Users can obtain estimates of their retirement income from Cato's individual account reform plan and compare it with their benefit under the existing Social Security system (assuming Cato's reform plan is not adopted) through Cato's Social Security calculator. | | | As President George W. Bush's 60-day Social Security tour comes to an end, the latest FOX News poll finds that a large minority of the public is unclear on the voluntary nature of his personal investment proposal. |
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http://www.socialsecurity.org
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| | Social Security Issue Guide |
| | Despite the fact that the Social Security trust fund is as robust today as it has been in recent years, the administration proposes to radically change the Social Security program by cutting benefits while at the same time allowing workers to create individual private accounts. | | | Social Security benefits are part of a social insurance program and its benefits are distinct from employer-provided pensions, Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), or other forms of savings. | | | The Social Security system provides three distinct types of benefits for workers and their families: lifetime retirement benefits for retirees who have worked at least ten years, their spouses, and their children; disability insurance for workers, their spouses, and their children; and survivors' insurance for the families of deceased workers. |
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http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/issueguide_socialsecurity
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| | Social Security |
| | Social Security Administration (SSA) will hold a celebration of the 65th anniversary of Social Security at Hyde Park, New York on Saturday, August 5, 2000 at 11:00 a.m. | | | Social Security Expected to Be Primary Retirement Income for 94 Percent of Seniors | | | Social Security Investment Accounts, Indexing in Bush Budget |
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http://www.seniorjournal.com/SocialSecurity.htm
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| | Social Security Crisis? |
| | He also didn't say that his own White House economists disagree with some of the basic assumptions of the chart, which was drawn up by the Social Security Administration. | | | Privatizers claim that as soon as Social Security needs to use some of the interest the trust is earning, the treasury just won't be able to come up with the money. | | | Private accounts would divert between 1/3 and 1/2 of Social Security's payroll-tax income, normally used to pay retirees, and put into private accounts. |
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http://zfacts.com/p/784.html
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| | Strengthening Social Security |
| | He knows that reforming Social Security will not be easy – but the Administration is committed to strengthening the system for the sake of the next generation. | | | President Bush has made it clear that all options are on the table for strengthening Social Security, with the exception of raising the payroll tax rate. | | | Fact Sheet: Strengthening Social Security For Today's Younger Workers |
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http://www.strengtheningsocialsecurity.gov
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| | RGE - Social Security Privatization as the Mother of All Con-Man Smoke-and-Mirrors Shell-Games |
| | As widely reported by the press, a partial privatization of Social Security via the creation of private accounts is one of the top policy priorities of the Bush II administration. | | | So, the private accounts do not lead to greater national savings nor they lead to more investment in stocks and capital: the whole privatization ends up being a different way for those private accounts to purchase the same government debt that is now purchased by the current PAYGO social security system. | | | Third, a social security privatization financed by debt (increased deficits) is, as even the strongest supporters of privatization like Larry Kotlikoff admit, only a shell game that does not lead to the benefit of increased national savings and capital accumulation in the long run. |
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http://www.rgemonitor.com/blog/roubini/91174
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| | Benefits for People with Disabilities |
| | While these two programs are different in many ways, both are administered by the Social Security Administration and only individuals who have a disability and meet medical criteria may qualify for benefits under either program. | | | Social Security Disability Insurance pays benefits to you and certain members of your family if you are "insured," meaning that you worked long enough and paid Social Security taxes. | | | The Social Security and Supplemental Security Income disability programs are the largest of several Federal programs that provide assistance to people with disabilities. |
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http://www.ssa.gov/disability
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| | Project on Social Security Choice |
| | The Social Security Administration's Office of the Actuary says that a U.S. House bill based on Cato's Social Security reform plan would restore the program to long-term solvency. | | | Users can obtain estimates of their retirement income from Cato's individual account reform plan and compare it with their benefit under the existing Social Security system (assuming Cato's reform plan is not adopted) through Cato's Social Security calculator. | | | Cato's individual account reform plan is currently being scored by the chief actuary for Social Security. |
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http://www.socialsecurity.org
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| | FRBSF: Economic Letter - Understanding the Social Security Debate (06/25/1999) |
| | In 1998, the Social Security Administration collected $440 billion in taxes and paid $382 billion in benefits and administrative fees, generating a yearly surplus of $58 billion dollars to be invested in Treasury bonds. | | | In the event that more Social Security taxes are paid in a year than are necessary to fund current beneficiaries, the Social Security Administration purchases special securities from the Treasury Department and holds them in the Social Security trust fund. | | | The Social Security Administration estimates that 47% of individuals age 65 and older would live in poverty without Social Security benefits, four times as many as are in poverty today (SSA 1999). |
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http://www.frbsf.org/econrsrch/wklyltr/wklyltr99/el99-20.html
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| | Republicans Finding Ways To Account For Overhaul (washingtonpost.com) |
| | The administration has not decided whether it will even embrace a specific Social Security overhaul, beyond advocating the creation of personal investment accounts that would be financed by diverting some portion of Social Security taxes from the current system. | | | Social Security can be put on a stronger financial footing at a fraction of the cost of partial privatization, say critics, who note that borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars on top of already large deficits could spell fiscal disaster. | | | An analysis of one plan produced by Bush's Social Security Commission concluded that the interim financing would cost as much as $104.5 billion the first year, balloon to $194.4 billion in the 10th year and would peak in roughly 20 years at $258 billion. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5525-2004Nov22.html
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| | Social Security Trust Fund - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Social Security Administration) or 2052 (according to the Congressional Budget Office). | | | Social Security system that are in excess of current payments to beneficiaries. | | | Accordingly, the Social Security tax was increased in 1983 so that it would be greater than necessary to pay for current expenditures, thus accumulating a reserve that could be drawn upon when necessary. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Trust_Fund
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| | Social Security (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The statement is also available on request from the Social Security Administration. | | | Social Security in the United States is a social insurance program funded through a dedicated payroll tax. | | | The Social Security portion of this tax is 6.2% of the first $90,000 (in 2005) of an employee's income paid directly by the employer, and an additional 6.2% of the first $90,000 (in 2005) deducted from the employee's paycheck, yielding an effective rate of 12.4% of an employee's income. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Act
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| | Strengthening Social Security |
| | He knows that reforming Social Security will not be easy – but the Administration is committed to strengthening the system for the sake of the next generation. | | | President Bush has made it clear that all options are on the table for strengthening Social Security, with the exception of raising the payroll tax rate. | | | Fact Sheet: Strengthening Social Security for Rural America (6/2/2005) |
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http://www.strengtheningsocialsecurity.gov
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| | Chile's Private Pension System at 18: Its Current State and Future Challenges |
| | All the ingredients of success -- individual choice, clearly defined property rights in contributions, and private administration of accounts -- have been present since 1981. | | | Its success notwithstanding, the Chilean system has found many critics, who often point to high administrative costs, lack of portfolio choice, and the large number of transfers from one fund to another as evidence that the system is inherently flawed and inappropriate for other countries, including the United States. | | | In the 18 years since the Chilean system was implemented, labor force participation, pension fund assets, and benefits have all grown. |
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http://www.socialsecurity.org/pubs/ssps/ssp-17es.html
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| | Social Security Reform |
| | Vice President Cheney said only a day earlier that the private accounts proposed for Social Security will cost trillions of dollars. It appears the administration, which has indicated it may have to borrow $750 billion in the next 10 years, is pushing the real cost for into the future. | | | A recent column points out that the payroll tax, including Social Security, is just a plain tax and it hits the middle income Americans the hardest. | | | The "Strengthening Social Security for Future Generations" report goes on to predict that by 2042, "the system will be bankrupt." Read more... |
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http://www.seniorjournal.com/SocSecReform.htm
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| | Social Security ... [Media Matters for America] |
| | In fact, the Social Security Administration's (SSA) analysis of the plan makes clear that the claim by "House Republicans" was false, while the claim by "an economist at the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities" was true. | | | In his April 29 column, Gelernter claimed that President Bush's plan for Social Security would let workers invest only 4 percent of their payroll taxes into private accounts, and that Democrats are lying when they say Bush wants to privatize Social Security. | | | In fact, Social Security's outlays are projected to begin exceeding its revenues in 2018, not 2011, according to the 2004 report of the Social Security trustees. |
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http://mediamatters.org/topics/socialsecurity.html
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| | Social Security |
| | The trust fund so held is available for the payment of old-age annuities and survivors insurance benefits and the necessary expenditures incurred by the Social Security Board and the Treasury Department in the administration of the program. | | | Social Security benefits are paid from these funds, and any money not needed to pay benefits is invested daily in U.S. government bonds. | | | At times in the past, Social Security was financed on a current-cost basis, popularly known as "pay-as-you-go." Some have compared that method to a pipeline, with taxes from workers flowing into one end of the pipe and payments for beneficiaries flowing out the other end. |
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http://www.wealth4freedom.com/truth/2/SS1.htm
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| | Social Security Lessons - New York Times |
| | Meanwhile, the administration politicized the Social Security Administration and used taxpayer money to promote a partisan agenda. | | | Social Security officials participated in what were in effect taxpayer- financed political rallies, from which skeptical members of the public were excluded. | | | Over time, the Bush plan would have transformed Social Security from a social insurance program into a mutual fund, with nothing except a name in common with the system F.D.R. created. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/15/opinion/15krugman.html?ex=1281758400&en=ab3e6090c166411c&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
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| | Social Security (United States) - definition of Social Security (United States) in Encyclopedia |
| | Social Security is a social welfare program administered by the Social Security Administration under the authority of the United States federal government. | | | Libertarians common criticize social security for returning at a lower rate than other investments, however, their numbers ignore the cost of borrowing for privatization, and the costs of insuring the increased risks that privatization would create. | | | Benefits are funded via a Social Security Payroll tax. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Social_Security_(United_States)
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| | Social Security Act |
| | II of the Social Security Act is administered by the Social Security Administration... | | | A group of blind and visually impaired people sued the Social Security Administration on Wednesday for cutting their benefits after they failed to respond to printed notices they couldn't read. | | | The Social Security Act authorized the Social Security Board to... |
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| | Bush Denies There Is A Social Security Trust Fund! |
| | Social Security's financial obligations are, according to the Social Security Trustees, backed by the "full faith and credit of the United States". | | | Now the Congressional committee which has direct jurisdiction over Social Security is refusing to hold the President accountable for his statements. | | | If, indeed, there is no Social Security trust - as the President asserts with the political protection of his Congressional majority - then it is clear that the President is heading towards a direct challenge to his own constitutional authority and legal responsibilities to affirm the financial obligations of Social Security. |
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http://www.rense.com/general64/denial.htm
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| | Grandfather Trust Fund Report-articles - by MWHodges |
| | The administration is pushing a program to partially privatize the Social Security system by allowing workers to keep part of their Social Security payroll tax deduction and investing it in personal accounts. | | | Once the number of retirees exceeds Social Security's ability to pay benefits out of payroll taxes, which is expected to occur in 15 years, the government must decide whether to make up the shortfall by getting money from general revenue sources or income tax receipts now going to fund other government programs. | | | While supporters of the Social Security system agree the government will be faced with coming up with actual money to redeem the non-marketable securities, they argue that those securities represent real obligations of the federal government and a failure to redeem the bonds would constitute a default by the government on its obligations. |
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| | Social Security Online |
| | In 1939 it became part of the cabinet-level Federal Security Agency, and in 1946 the SSB was abolished and replaced by the current Social Security Administration. | | | The Social Security Board (SSB) began its life in 1935 as one of the federal government's "independent agencies." This means that it was not part of a larger cabinet-level organization. | | | The significance of the new social insurance program was that it sought to address the long-range problem of economic security for the aged through a contributory system in which the workers themselves contributed to their own future retirement benefit by making regular payments into a joint fund. |
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| | United States Senator - Chuck Hagel |
| | The current unfunded liability for Social Security over the 75-year horizon the Social Security Administration uses to calculate benefits and expenditures is 3.7 trillion dollars. | | | Under any reform plan, Americans still need the security of knowing that the portion of their Social Security benefits that come from the traditional Social Security system will be guaranteed. | | | These private accounts are in addition to the guaranteed Social Security benefits and personal savings, pensions and retirement account programs individuals build up during their working years. |
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http://hagel.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=219301&Month=3&Year=2005
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| | Temple Times: Professor to bring Social Security debate home through teach-in |
| | Berkowitz, the author of numerous books on social insurance and a policy analyst for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in the mid-1970s, will lay the groundwork of the debate by outlining the history of Social Security. | | | The teach-in on the Social Security debate will start at 6 p.m. | | | Temple Times: Professor to bring Social Security debate home through teach-in |
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http://www.temple.edu/temple_times/3-24-05/schofield.html
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| | Dont let Social Security debate pass you by - Minnesota Daily |
| | Social Security will start paying out more than it collects in payroll taxes in approximately 15 years and in approximately 40 years or 50 years Social Security will only be able to pay approximately 75 percent or 80 percent of promised benefits, depending on whose estimate you look at. | | | Social Security can be fixed without drastic benefit cuts and without creating huge deficits if Republicans drop their preoccupation with private accounts and join with Democrats to forge a bipartisan solution. | | | Right now, Social Security collects more in payroll taxes than it pays out to beneficiaries, so there is a surplus credited to the Social Security trust fund. |
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http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2005/05/02/64435
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