Treasury Secretary: Social Security Change Needed
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Treasury Secretary John Snow on  Monday agreed with recent calls to reform Social Security and  Medicare but offered no new proposals to keep the income and  insurance programs for the elderly solvent.
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Staffing problems at the Social Security Administration could make it difficult for field offices to handle increased telephone calls and visits prompted by an upcoming increase in Medicare premiums, according to the Government Accountability Office.
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President Bush warned Saturday that if Congress does not act now to overhaul Social Security, the choices ahead will be harsh and painful. He repeated his call to add private accounts to the system.
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Mention of Social Security&#39;s future triggers anxious questions. Will it be there when you retire? Will benefits be cut or eligibility changed?
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Bee Washington Bureau. WASHINGTON - Beginning a major push for one of his signature economic plans, President Bush on Thursday called for urgent action to revamp the Social Security system.
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The nation's 47 million Social Security recipients got a bit of good news yesterday: their checks next year will increase 2.7 percent, or an average of $25 thanks to the program's annual cost-of-living adjustment. But looking further into the future, the news is less encouraging. A trio of forces -- higher taxes, rising medical costs, and a mandated increase in ...
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US Treasury Secretary John Snow said creating private investment accounts within the Social Security system will help the federal program avoid ``deep cuts&#39;&#39; in benefits or ``huge&#39;&#39; increases in payroll taxes.
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The White House has written a memo  arguing that changing the Social Security system will require  reducing benefits as well as setting up private investment  accounts, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON - An overhaul of Social Security to allow personal investment accounts won&#39;t fix the looming financial shortfall by itself, the White House said Wednesday.
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Social Security disability benefits may not be safe from the across-the-board cuts that are likely in President Bush's proposal to allow personal investment accounts.
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The Bush administration is focusing on a Social Security proposal that would allow younger workers to invest nearly two-thirds of their payroll taxes in private accounts, with contributions limited to about &#36;1,000 to &#36;1,300 a year, an administration official said Tuesday.
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With their push to restructure Social Security off to a rocky start, Bush administration officials have begun citing two Democrats -- former President Bill Clinton and the late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- to bolster their claims that the retirement system is in crisis.
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Social Security and tax code changes could strain the federal budget. The president could use a rising GDP.
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Politicians are starting to weigh changes to the federal retirement program. Reforms carry risk and can&#39;t be separated from nation&#39;s overall fiscal health.
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Third in a series of occasional articles examining the economic and political stakes involved in the Bush administration's proposed overhaul of Social Security.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson conceded on Friday that chances were slim for agreeing on a way to reform Social Security financing but said he would keep trying to find bipartisan support for it.
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Treasury Secretary John Snow began a sales effort on Monday to drum up Wall Street support for President Bush's plans to overhaul Social Security.