Hot corners: screen saver

Dear Applelovers,
Happy Seasons Greetings to you and yours.
I continue to have a problem enabling 'hot corners' to work. I have tried, particularly in the Screen Saver section of System Preferences, but no luck.
I am able to selct the hot corners feature by clicking the box, but the corners no longer seem to respond when it comes to starting the screen saver. I am able to put the display to sleep as well as other selections, but enabling the corners to allow the screen saver to begin is a no-go.
Looked around the forums and elsewhere online; though this seems to be a "known issue", I have yet to discover a fix for it.
Thoughts?

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