Tag: Social Security COLA
The brief’s key findings are: Traditionally, Social Security has supported family caregivers – typically women – through a spousal benefit. Today, however, many women are not eligible for this benefit because they are not married or they qualify for their own worker’s benefit. As a result, many mothers receive little to no support to offset lost earnings…
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…
