Boomers to Test Health, Welfare Systems; Social Security Worries Some

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Ron Mueller expects to collect his Social Security checks when he reaches the age of eligibility - in nine years. The Bellevue, Iowa, man is fairly confident the entitlement program he's paid into for two-thirds of his life will still be there when he's eligible to draw from the trust fund.

"(Politicians) have been talking about changing it for so long, but I don't see them making any significant changes by then," said Mueller, a 56-year-old executive at American Trust & Savings Bank in Dubuque.

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Boomers to Test Health, Welfare Systems; Social Security Worries Some

Ask Rusty Knight about Social Security and you will get an entirely different answer.

"I'm not counting on it," Knight said. At 52, the chief executive officer of Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque said he's grown accustomed to the idea the Social Security system that his parents and grandparents cou...

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