Sentence examples for social security amounts from inspiring English sources

"My opponent in this general election, John McCain, his idea of Social Security amounts to four more years of what was attempted and failed under George W. Bush, Mr. Obamaa said, referring to Mr. McCain's previous support of private accounts within Social Security.

For individuals who have not yet retired by 2010 and, thus, do not report a primary insurance amount in the 2006 or 2010 waves, we use prospective social security amounts as reported in the "Prospective Social Security Wealth Measures of Pre-retirees" by Kapinos et al. (2010).

Medicare will make up $1 trillion of the federal budget by the end of the decade, Medicaid currently accounts for nearly $400 billion of the budget and is expanding quicker than Medicare, Social Security amounts to $770 billion of the budget, and Food Stamp expenditures are continuing to skyrocket.

From the beginning of 2001 through the third quarter of 2002, the federal government leapt from a surplus (including Social Security) amounting to 2.3percentt of gross domestic product to a deficit of the same size.

The largest area of expenditure was on pensions and social security, amounting to almost £8bn, or 35%, of the £22.6bn total.

More important, though, for all older Americans, a higher age for claiming Social Security simply amounts to a big across-the-board benefit cut.

Starting in 2011, Mr. Gore would begin transferring to Social Security an amount equal to the interest saved through reduction of the public debt.

By 1980 social security expenditure amounted to 32 percent of the gross national product in Sweden, between 25 and 30 percent in Belgium, Denmark, France, and the Netherlands, and between 20 and 25 percent in Austria, West Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, and Norway.

While social security spending amounted to less than 10 percent of the gross national product in nearly all countries in 1950, it had risen to 20 to 30 percent or more in many European countries by 1980.

Starting in 2011, Mr. Gore would funnel to Social Security an amount of money equal to the annual interest savings from debt reduction -- $100 billion a year at first, growing to more than $200 billion a year by 2015.

To obtain a household measure of Social Security wealth, we sum the amounts for husband and wife.