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Is Social Security Running Out?

Next year marks the first year that the Social Security Administration will have to start drawing down its assets in order to pay retirees their entitlements.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks to Alicia Munnell, the director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, about what could come next.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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