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Social Security Administration: Social Security Program
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* When the Social Security program loans money to the U.S. government, the government can use this money to spend on government programs. This increases the national debt because the U.S. government has spent the money that it has borrowed from the Social Security program. Some politicians have referred to this action as, "Raiding the Social Security Trust Fund." [126]
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The decade of the 1960s brought additional changes to the Social Security program. Among the most significant was a provision in the Amendments of 1961 lowering the age at which men are first eligible for retirement benefits to 62 (women previously were given this option in 1956).
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