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workers worked in employment or self-employment covered by Social Security, and 39 million persons received benefit payments each month.
Although the funds are projected to reach $1 trillion by the turn of the century and peak at about $2.8 trillion in today’s dollars by the year 2020, benefit payments after that will exceed tax income, and Social Security will use the accumulated reserves to meet its obligations.
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