Your Social Security earnings record directly impacts your future benefits. Mistakes can lower your payments, so it’s important to check for errors and fix them promptly.

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President Donald Trump has vowed not to cut Social Security benefits, and it’s easy to understand his position: Proposing even modest reforms to the entitlement program represents a likely path to ...