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What is the Social Security Administration good for? A typical first response would be “helping seniors weather the costs of retirement,” and that’s certainly true. But that’s not all it does. As with Social Security itself, many Americans don’t understand exactly how the agency running the federal program works — or how to take full advantage of it. Following are several services you may not…