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Karen Thurman: “we just got the report. It is 150 pages long. We are going to continue to dissect it and try to figure out if there are…”

On the recordDecember 12, 2001
we just got the report. It is 150 pages long. We are going to continue to dissect it and try to figure out if there are some things that we might catch onto. But there is an issue in the report that does concern me, and it is the one that I spoke about earlier called the ``claw back.'' This claw-back issue is enormous because people think they are going to get their Social Security plus this investment. It does not work that way. That is a really big concern because I think we are giving some false hope that we are going to take this 2 percent and invest it for you and, oh, by the way, you are going to get this, but you are also going to get all of this money that you supposedly made, and it does not work that way.
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Karen Thurman
Democratic · Florida
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Discussing concerns about a report related to Social Security and investment returns.

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