Of course, Social Security is social insurance rather than a personal retirement account, and so it uses a formula to cross-subsidize certain beneficiaries.

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Then it plugs your AIME into a formula that figures out your full retirement benefit, called your Primary Insurance Amount (PIA).

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As insurers throw auditors, fraud-detection, and insurance agents overboard, I fear that health care costs will increase more than the formula suggests.

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