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Social Security and Medicare funds at risk even before virus

by Associated Press
| April 22, 2020 10:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The financial conditions of the government’s two biggest benefits programs remain shaky, with Medicare projected to become insolvent in six years and Social Security on track to no longer be able to pay full benefits starting in 2035.

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