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Fran Seeley, 81, doesn't see herself as living on the edge of a financial crisis. But she's uncomfortably close.

Each month, Seeley, a retired teacher, gets $925 from Social Security and a $287 disbursement from an individual retirement account. To make ends meet, she's taken out a reverse mortgage on her Portland, Maine, home that yields $400 monthly.

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