Kerry: Bush 'January Surprise' for Social Security
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COLUMBUS, Ohio  - If re-elected, President Bush  plans a "big January surprise" and will move quickly to allow  some private Social Security accounts that will reduce benefits  for retirees and swell the U.S. deficit, Democratic Sen. John  Kerry said on Sunday.
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FARGO, N.D.  - President Bush warned on Thursday  that retirement benefits for younger workers were at risk as he  brought his campaign to revamp Social Security to the American  heartland and sought the public's help in winning over  skeptical members of Congress.
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - Facing record budget deficits,  the Bush administration likely will turn to short-term  government borrowing to help finance its plan to add personal  retirement accounts to Social Security, officials said on  Saturday.
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Sen. John Kerry cited a report Sunday that claims President George Bush would seek to privatize Social Security in a second administration.
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President Bush is unveiling sharp new criticism aimed at Sen. John Kerry&#39;s positions on national security and domestic concerns, including taxes and Social Security, as he
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Democrat John Kerry criticized President George W. Bush on Saturday for burying a record jump in Medicare premiums in a pre-holiday announcement that came during a rush of news at home and abroad.
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Social Security benefits will not change for retirees or wage-earners age 55 or older in the plan President Bush unveiled Wednesday night. But the government guarantee would drop for younger workers whether or not they set up personal accounts.
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President Bush stuck to generalities in his State of the Union message, but the White House this week provided some details of its plan to set up private accounts in the Social Security system. The administration didn't lay out a complete road map. It remains unclear, for example, how much traditional benefits will have to be cut or how the ...
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WASHINGTON - More than 47 million Americans receiving Social Security will get a 2.7 percent increase - an extra $25, on average - in their monthly checks next year, but much of the increase will be eaten up by higher Medicare premiums.    The Social Security Administration announced the cost-of-living adjustment Tuesday, and the increase will start showing up in checks in January...
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The bonanza many believe President  Bush has handed the mutual fund industry with his plans to  reform Social Security may be a mirage, industry leaders said  on Friday.
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President Bush emphasized today during his last press conference of the year that he wants Social Security reform efforts to protect the benefits of older Americans.
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AKRON, Ohio  - Democrat John Kerry criticized  President Bush on Saturday for burying a record jump in  Medicare premiums in a pre-holiday announcement that came  during a rush of news at home and abroad.
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Democrat John Kerry sounded a warning to Americans on Social Security as he headed to Florida on Sunday, a critical battleground state where early voting was
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Health care costs have risen much faster than the increases in social Security benefits, says John Kerry. He says the elderly of America will have a much better deal if he becomes President.
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The bonanza many believe President Bush has handed the mutual fund industry with his plans to reform Social Security may be a mirage, industry leaders said on Friday.
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SEATTLE - John Kerry doesn't talk much about Social Security on the campaign trail, but he laid out some thoughts for a voter in Everett, Wash., who doubted that the government retirement program is really in trouble.   "We've made little fixes, little jots and jags here and there, that have been able to change it," the Democratic presidential candidate said, noting that Social Security has survived 20 years of predictions that its demise is around the corner...
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President Bush said Thursday that ``now is the time to confront Social Security&#39;&#39; to deal with a projected $3.7 trillion shortfall over 75 years and give younger workers the