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One in five Americans receives Social Security benefits.
The average monthly Social Security benefit in 2003 was $879.70.
Social Security pays more than $450 billion in benefits every year.
In 1950, there were 16 workers for every one retiree. Today, there are only three workers per retiree.
In 2017, Social Security will begin to pay more in benefits than it receives in payroll taxes.
Social Security taxes have been raised more than 40 times since the program began.
Social Security taxes have increased by more than 600 percent since the program began.
The maximum original Social Security tax was just $60. Today it is more than $11,000.
One out of every eight dollars you earn goes to Social Security.
Eight in ten Americans pay more in Social Security tax than they do in income tax.
Though you pay Social Security taxes, you have no legal right to Social Security benefits.
Americans aged 18 - 34 are more likely to believe in UFOs than in the future of Social Security
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