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AARP Open to Social Security Cuts

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As long as they are “far off in the future.”

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Just in time for debt talks, the leading lobby for senior citizens, AARP, says it’s open to some Social Security benefit cuts. John Rother, AARP’s policy chief, said that reductions in benefits should be “minimal” and “far off in the future.”

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