Tag: 2017 SS COLA
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This annual adjustment always raises the question of what’s the right price index. 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, bot…