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Social Security Is Important To Women

In a January 2012 fact sheet the Social Security Press Office released some timley information for women.

1. Women have a greater chance of exhausting other sources of income not adjusted for inflation.

2. Women average $12,000 less annually than men, if they were full-time, mediam earning, working-age in 2010.

3. Women in 2010 age 65 and older received an average annual Social Security income that was $3,437 less than men.