Greek social security funds hold nearly two-thirds of their liquid assets in government bonds.
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Currently, Social Security funds run a surplus that helps to finance other parts of government.
The court heard that Saxonis was responsible for forwarding to social security funds the contributions from council workers' salaries.
In particular, Quigg cited increasing interest by the privatized social security funds in the Andean region of South America.
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He also vowed to "fix Social Security, " refusing to rule out raising the retirement age or allowing some Social Security funds to be invested in the stock market.
Less than 10% of the workforce has access to some type of social security funds, which means prudent investing is the only way most Indians are able to retire.
Recent surveys show that regardless of whether the Dow is up or down, a majority oppose direct investment in stocks by the Social Security funds and they strongly oppose lowering benefits or raising the retirement age.
Progressives who support the right of fifteen year old girls to make decisions about abortion without parental notification do not trust these same girls later in life to make their own investment choices with their Social Security funds.
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Solves are recommended such as raising the retirement age to 67, in line with rising lifespan, and turning some portion of our Social Security funds over to Wall Street, a position that is about as popular with the American public as paroling Charles Manson.
Not because Goodman, 54, is in line for a Cabinet seat "I don't have the right personality for that, " he says but because Bush had the guts to run on a delicate issue Goodman has championed for years:investing Social Security funds in the stock market.
Some money might equally well go into the social-security funds of immigrants' sending countries.
"They're about to build their oil rigs on top of the Medicare and Social Security trust funds, " Markey said.
In theory, the Medicare and Social Security trust funds have at least some money to pay a portion of the bills that are coming due.
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What is more, say Ms Johnson's people, she would only support investing Social-Security funds in the stockmarket if payouts remained guaranteed, which is basically Mr Maloney's position.
"I believe they have an affirmative obligation to come up with spending cuts or new revenue to prevent us from raiding the Medicare and Social Security trust funds, " said Conrad.
This week's vote was prompted by fury that the government had planned, until it was ruled unconstitutional, to plunder the social-security funds in order to compensate employers for the shorter working week.
On January 18th, the general assembly of the French Enterprise Movement, known as Medef, decided by a vote of 96% to withdraw from the joint management with the unions of France's social-security funds.
But a third reason is that the 35-hour week is already the terrain for political warfare, with the employers' federation, for example, threatening to abandon its joint administration with the unions of France's social-security funds.
And that in turn came soon after a ruling that the government cannot raid social-security funds to finance a working week it has shortened from 39 hours to 35 with no loss of pay for France's workers.
Democrats argued that Bush's broad energy plan would force the government to dip into the federal budget surplus, or the Medicare and Social Security trust funds, which, they predict, will be strained enough by increased numbers of beneficiaries in the next few years.
They were lent to the federal government and spent on other government programs, from foreign aid to bridges to nowhere, with the Social Security trust funds receiving only internal federal IOUs promising to pay the money back when it is needed to pay benefits.
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Central to Mr Bush's short-term problem is what the disappearing surplus means for the social security surplus, the funds set aside for future Social Security, or pension, payments.
The deficit in income taxes has been financed by borrowing, largely from the Social Security and Medicare trust funds.
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If so, he is a genius who should immediately be put in charge of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds.
True, the eventual beneficiaries of these programs contribute payroll taxes to the Social Security and Medicare trust funds during their working lives.
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Hence, the only problem we have with entitlements is paying back the money that we borrowed from the Social Security and Medicare trust funds.
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On top of that, the cut in the payroll tax that funds Social Security will expire, meaning those same middle class families will get hit twice.
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His proposal scraps the entire existing code, including capital gains, interest and dividend income, the estate tax, and the payroll tax that funds Social Security and Medicare.
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As background, Chuck Blahous is one of two public trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, having been appointed to this post by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
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But some Democrats are wary of any change to the payroll tax, which funds the Social Security program.
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