Tag: cost of living adjustment
The brief’s key findings are: How best to adjust Social Security benefits for inflation has been controversial. Critics argue that an experimental index for the elderly (the CPI-E) should replace the current broader index (the CPI-W). Historically, the CPI-E, which places more weight on health care costs, has risen faster than the CPI-W. But, over…
The brief’s key findings are: The Census Bureau just reported a big jump in the poverty rate in 2009. But poverty rates actually fell for those over 65 as: Social Security recipients got a large cost-of-living adjustment and a one-time stimulus payment; and the poverty threshold dipped due to lower inflation in 2009. This situation…
