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Summary: cuts. A person somewhat higher up the wage scale (earning $58,400 in 2005) would face a benefit cut of 25%, with the replacement rate falling from 30% of prior earnings to just 23%. Over time, partial price indexing erodes the current relationship between lifetime earnings and Social Security benefits, so that by 2075 (retirement time for those born this year)

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