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COVID recession pushed Social Security insolvency up a year

by Martin CrutsingerRicardo Alonso-Zaldivar
| September 1, 2021 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The sharp shock of the coronavirus recession pushed Social Security a year closer to insolvency but left Medicare’s exhaustion date unchanged, the government reported Tuesday in a counterintuitive assessment that deepens the uncertainty around the nation's bedrock retirement programs.

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