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Do We Need a Price Index for the Elderly?

Issue Brief by Alicia H. Munnell and Anqi Chen

October 20, 2015

The brief’s key findings are: The recent news of no Social Security COLA in 2016 will prompt some to argue that an inflation index for the elderly only would have shown a rise in prices. Historically, an experimental index for the elderly (the CPI-E) has regularly risen more quickly than the broader index used for…

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