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In FY 2011, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid were the largest individual mandatory expenditures, together accounting for about 70 percent of all mandatory spending. Various income security programs, such as SNAP, unemployment compensation, and earned income and child tax credits, accounted for an additional 18 percent of mandatory spending.
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