How Is Social Security Funded?
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Social Security gets most of its funding from taxes and special government investments, but it also has reserves from years of taking in more money than it paid out.
Social Security gets most of its funding from taxes and special government investments, but it also has reserves from years of taking in more money than it paid out.
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