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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Social Security Survivors' Fairness Act of 2005 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to reduce the age of eligibility for widow's and widower's insurance benefits from age 60 to age 55. </p>]]></text>
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