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Social Security crunch: 2041

Trustees expect Medicare to go broke in 2020

By Charles Stein
Globe Staff / March 24, 2005

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Social Security's trustees yesterday said the system will exhaust its reserves in 2041, a year earlier than last year's estimate, a small change that is not likely to alter the political debate about the program's future. (Full article: 819 words)

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