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Social Security

"We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against a poverty-ridden old age."

--President Franklin Roosevelt, when signing the Social Security Act in August, 1935

1. What it is and how it works
2. Who can collect, and when?
3. A word about Medicare
4. How Social Security benefits are calculated
5. Who benefits
6. Overpayments and collection of overpayments
7. Possible problems in the future
8. Some proposals for ensuring Social Security’s financial health
9. Resources

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