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Congress continues to ignore the fact that Social Security's trust fund is expected to run out of money in 2035, which would result in a 20% cut in benefits.

When the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual report for 2022 on June 2, it showed that the date for the depletion of the combined Old Age, Survivor and Disability trust fund had been moved back one year, to 2035.

Hold the champagne corks. This isn’t good news. Rather, it

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