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more in benefits than they paid in Social Security taxes, though they didn't do quite as well as their parents and grandparents.
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• Social Security: How much I pay, how much I get
• Lifetime Social Security taxes and benefits for people turning 65 in different decades. The lifetime value of taxes is based on the value of accumulated taxes paid, as if those taxes were put into an account that earned an annual 2 percent interest rate, plus inflation. The examples are for a married couple in which both spouses earned average wages ($43,500 in 2011). Projected benefits assume that both spouses have average life spans after turning 65. Want more benefits? Live longer.
• If you turned 65 in 1960:
• Lifetime Social Security benefits: $259,000.
• Lifetime Social Security taxes: $36,000.
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• PHOENIX (AP) -- Mavy Stoddard, who lost her husband in the massacre in Arizona last year that severely wounded then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, plans to be in a federal courtroom this week to see if her prayers will be answered by a guilty plea from the man accused of the crime.
• Stoddard, who has recovered from three gunshot wounds in a leg, said Sunday

she's "just thrilled" by news reports of a possible plea agreement that could send Jared Lee Loughner to prison for the rest of his life.
• "I don't really want the death penalty. I would love to see him either put in a mental institution or life in prison with no parole. Either one of them. If he can get some help, that's what he needs. And maybe he will find the Lord," Stoddard said in a telephone interview from her home in Tucson, Ariz.
• A hearing in the federal case against Loughner is scheduled for Tuesday in Tucson, and a court-appointed psychiatrist is to testify that Loughner is competent to enter a plea, according to a person familiar with the case who was not authorized to discuss the case publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
• Loughner is expected to enter a guilty plea if the judge allows that to happen at the hearing, according to the person who spoke Saturday about upcoming court proceedings in the case.
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