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.
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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Some money might equally well go into the social-security funds of immigrants' sending countries.
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.
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.
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.
Under each main heading are 6 to 10 subtopics, ranging from Asset Allocation to Vanguard funds to Social Security to annuities.
Indeed, for private and public pension funds including Social Security, investing in healthcare companies could be the ideal natural hedge to their growing liabilities.
At that bottom end of the scale, retired and unemployed Americans rely far more on safety nets: the lowest-earning fifth of the population gets 48% of its yearly income from retirement funds like Social Security, and 9% from public assistance programs like food stamps.
At its inception the Social Security Trust Fund and other trust funds were held Sacrosanct, i.e.
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Since interest paid to the Fed, the Social Security system and other government pension funds is effectively rebated to the Treasury, taxpayers currently bear only the burden of interest on 60% of this debt.
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What do you suppose Democrats will propose on the day that funds run dry for Social Security or Medicare?
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