And the adjustments that we have to make on Social Security are relatively modest.
The reductions came as the number of people on Social Security's two disability programs was growing.
An added bonus: It doesn't help raise Medicare premiums or tax on Social Security payments.
When reasonable people look for the sensible middle, you can agree on Social Security.
On Social Security, the President repeated yesterday that he is opposed to slashing benefits.
The House of Representatives unanimously voted to end the earnings penalty on Social Security benefits.
Two-thirds of women over age 65 rely on Social Security as their primary source of income.
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Do you see a major difference between the two of you on Social Security?
For years -- well, I'm on Social Security and so is my wife, Peggy.
By 2017, the federal government will be spending more on health care than on social security.
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They also cannot count on Social Security, which will provide only a small portion of living costs.
He also advised President Clinton on NAFTA, and advised President Bush on Social Security and tax reform.
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Only a third of all Americans receiving government entitlement transfers are seniors on Social Security and Medicare.
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Getting more people into jobs would also help the government's aim of cutting spending on social security.
If so, a lot of them are on social security - how are they going to pay?
They will propose a lower rate on Social Security but will want to lift or remove the cap.
This nation is rich enough to meet its obligations to those on or about to go on Social Security.
He lives on Social Security in a Cambridge efficiency apartment that is about four times larger than his cell.
As Americans get older, spending on Social Security and healthcare will necessarily rise.
Senior citizens on Social Security who are just hanging on by a thread.
Next year the baby boomers begin to retire on Medicare in earnest, and the year after that on Social Security.
Nonetheless, these reforms are the first sign that the government is prepared to take genuinely tough decisions on social security.
Not to Milton Friedman, who called the contribution scheme needlessly regressive as part of his attack on Social Security.
He is silent on Social Security reform and offers, if anything, to spend more than Mr Bush on health care.
It seems to be macho to say that one is not counting on Social Security being around in their retirement years.
We should lift the income cap on Social Security and we should continue to work at fixing the healthcare status quo.
Expenditures on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, measured as a share of GDP, grew 20 percent over the past four years.
For the government, Home Office Minister Baroness Scotland warned that the amendment could have a regressive effect on social security benefits.
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When the IRS began to improve its control on Social Security numbers, Hersch started using real numbers to perpetrate the same scam.
The Senate changes add some 20 million seniors and a quarter-million disabled veterans living on social security to those getting rebate checks.
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