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Trustees: Social Security, Medicare face serious financial issues
If you have a loved one receiving benefits, please start planning for their financial future. The government is getting ready to pull the plug.... 
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
AP Economics Writer
Published on: 03/25/08
WASHINGTON — Trustees for the government's two biggest benefit programs are warning that Social Security and Medicare are facing enormous financial challenges with the threats to Medicare far more severe.
The trustees on Tuesday issued their once-a-year analysis of the health of the government's two biggest benefit programs. And they said that the resources in the Social Security trust fund will be depleted by 2041. The reserves in the Medicare trust fund that pays hospital benefits were projected to be wiped out by 2019.
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