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Social Security Reform: Implications for Women

T-HEHS-99-52 Published: Feb 03, 1999. Publicly Released: Feb 03, 1999.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed: (1) how women currently fare under social security; (2) how they might be affected by some of the proposed changes in benefits to restore solvency; and (3) how women might fare under a system restructured to include individual accounts.

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Employee survivors benefitsFederal social security programsInvestment planningRetirement benefitsRetirement incomeSocial security benefitsFederal employees retirement systemWidowed personsWomenAccounts