21.   He will say that Medicare benefit cuts are unwise, given that future medical breakthroughs are likely to cut the cost of treatments in the future.

22.   However, benefit cuts would be more than made up by increased earnings from the new investments, advisory council members say.

23.   However, the benefit cut would be more than made up by increased earnings from the new investments, advisory council members say.

24.   Hudson said the combination of benefit cuts and pension seniority lost in the rush to early retirement will cost most of them hundreds of dollars a month.

25.   I would preserve the important social protections of Social Security and still achieve long-term financial balance through what might be called kind and gentle benefit cuts.

26.   If voters are to quietly accept personal financial sacrifices to balance the federal budget, they must be persuaded that benefit cuts are evenly applied.

27.   In a survey of nearly a dozen Democratic Assembly members from different parts of the state, almost all said they would oppose benefit cuts.

28.   In Rockland and Suffolk Counties, where rents run relatively high, officials worry that the cash benefit cuts proposed by the governor could lead to greater homelessness.

29.   Instead, he said, money saved through benefit cuts and other restrictions would be spent on programs intended to put welfare recipients to work.

30.   Its final report declared that private accounts would indeed strengthen Social Security, if they were accompanied by sharp benefit cuts and huge financial injections from unspecified sources.