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Income Maintenance: Social Security The largest single federal program of any kind is Social Security. This program is generally thought of as providing benefits for retired workers. Social Security not only provides benefits for retired workers, but for the survivors of workers who die before retirement. The program also offers disability compensation for a worker that becomes unable to warn a living. He or she and any dependants are eligible for these benefits. These social …

…remove some of the discrimination from the system and make it more humane and responsive. The system, in all probability, will continue to be a major success story in public policy, but one that will remain on the policy making agenda. Knowing the facts is the only way to cut through the half-truths and distortions that are all too often the basis for the arguments for change offered by those with political and personal agendas.