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Years ago, I mentioned to a colleague that there was nothing between me and the Salvation Army but...me

Don’t forget Social Security! Everyone knows about SS’s retirement safety net but many don’t realize it is also a safety net for surviving children.

We were a middle-class family; I was in college and my two siblings in elementary and high school when my father had a hart attack and died at 54. If not for the very minimum substance Social Security provided, I don’t know how we would have gotten my younger siblings through high school. All of us got through that catastrophe period and ended up successful tax paying citizens with no need for any continuing support for now going on 50+ years.

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