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Social Security benefits and costs are perfectly reasonable - no case exists for massive cuts

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By Alicia Munnell Verified
| Morningstar
By Alicia H. Munnell It might be nice to reduce the large share of benefits going to high earners who retire later and live long lives To read about our federal finances, one would think we had been overtaken by forces beyond our control: extremely expensive healthcare programs, ever-growing interest payments on our debt, and runaway Social Security benefits. Since retirement is my game, let's assess the reasonableness of our Social Security benefits.
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By Alicia Munnell Verified
| crr.bc.edu
is a columnist for MarketWatch and senior advisor of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. To read about our federal finances, one would think we had been overtaken by forces beyond our control: extremely expensive healthcare programs, ever-growing interest payments on our debt, and runaway Social Security benefits. Since retirement is my game, let’s assess the reasonableness of our Social Security benefits.
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.css-1o8nh7k{color:var(--color-secondary300, secondary300);} Opinion: Social Security benefits and costs are perfectly reasonable — no case exists for massive cuts

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By Alicia Munnell Verified
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To read about our federal finances, one would think we had been overtaken by forces beyond our control: extremely expensive healthcare programs, ever-growing interest payments on our debt, and runaway Social Security benefits. Since retirement is my game, let’s assess the reasonableness of our Social Security benefits. My assumption has always been that on average they were reasonable, but a reality check can’t hurt.
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