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Social Security Trust Fund Gone by 2042

Makeup of the Social Security Board of Trustees

By Robert Longley, About.com

The Board of Trustees is comprised of six members. Four serve by virtue of their positions with the federal government: John W. Snow, Secretary of the Treasury and Managing Trustee; Jo Anne Barnhart, Commissioner of Social Security; Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services; and Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of Labor. The other two members, appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, are John L. Palmer and Thomas R. Saving.

The entire 2003 Social Security Trustees Report can be viewed at: http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/TR03/

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