Tag: cutting Social Security benefits
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Raising the ‘full retirement age’ is not a third option — it is a benefit cut. The debate about Social Security has begun. That’s perfectly appropriate. The system is running a 75-year deficit, and the assets in the Trust Fund, which are temporally filling the gap between revenues and promised benefits, are projected to b…