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The Social Security surplus has vanished, not that anyone has noticed.(The Week)(Brief article)

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* The Social Security surplus has vanished, not that anyone has noticed. In February, the program paid out more in benefits than it received in payroll taxes. When the economy recovers, a surplus may reappear temporarily. But the decades of using the payroll-tax surplus to ...

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