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With the prospect that Congress may fail to raise the debt ceiling and the possibility that Social Security benefits may not be paid on a timely basis, one obvious question is whether it matters if people get their check a few days, a week, or a couple of weeks late. From my reading of t…
Apparently, Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) is working with Senator Angus King (I-ME), who caucuses with the Democrats, to craft a bipartisan solution to fix Social Security. Their plan involves creating a fund outside of Social Security that could be invested in equities and using the earnings on that fund to help pay promised benefits. T…
