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ceiling: Will I get my Social Security check?  @CNNMoney July
28, 2011: 3:17 PM ET Social Security checks might not go out
next week if the debt ceiling isn't raised.   NEW YORK
(CNNMoney) -- Can the government afford to send out Social
Security checks next week if the debt ceiling isn't raised?  The
28 million Americans expecting their payments on Aug. 3 will
have to wait and see. Another 27 million people are scheduled to
get checks later in the month.  President Obama keeps warning
that the government may not have enough money to pay all its
bills, including Social Security, if the debt ceiling impasse
isn't resolved by Aug. 2.  If "we default, we would not have
enough money to pay all of our bills -- bills that include
monthly Social Security checks, veterans' benefits and the
government contracts we've signed with thousands of businesses,"
Obama said in a televised address Monday night.  Missing Social
Security payments is no small matter. The