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The Social Security program faces crucial issues including a projected trust fund shortfall by 2033, an aging population that’s reducing the worker-to-beneficiary ratio and ongoing political gridlock.

USA TODAY reached out to retirees across the country who are living mostly on Social Security, to ask how they were doing.

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