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Pete Hoekstra: “If they are on Social Security and they are getting a check today, we are not messing with that. What we are doing is we…”

On the recordMarch 3, 1999
If they are on Social Security and they are getting a check today, we are not messing with that. What we are doing is we are talking about how we are going to save Social Security for our kids and for our grandkids, and it will be a transition process. It is not going to affect you. It is probably not even going to affect people who are 60 years old today. It is going to affect the people who are younger than that who are going to have time to understand any changes, will be a dialogue with them. We will process through these types of changes, and we will not jeopardize their Social Security either. But for the people who are getting a check today, it is not going to change.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan

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Discussing the impact of proposed changes to Social Security on current and future beneficiaries.

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