Tag: 2017 COLA

Portrait of modern senior woman with shopping cart choosing fruits and vegetables in supermarket

The Social Security Administration recently announced that in 2017 beneficiaries will receive a cost-of-living adjustment of 0.3 percent, after having received no increase for inflation in 2016.  Automatic indexing is generally viewed as a positive feature of social security systems, both in the United States and abroad.  Without such automatic adjustments, the government would hav…