An early version of the cybersecurity-cooperation plan was released in January, and private industry has been working with officials on a second version of the plan, which is expected to be released in spring 2001.

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Bringing them into Social Security would bolster the system's reserves and also end the "double dipping" that permits federal employees to retire early on a civil service pension, work for a few years in a job in private industry, and qualify for a Social Security pension too.

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