Social Security : The Automatic Benefit Increase Provision.

Provides background on social security automatic benefit increases, which change according to CPI. Reviews concerns on the fairness of the increases and appropriateness of using CPI as the measure for change. Summarizes recent proposals to change the method calculating cost-of-living adjustments for...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1981.
Series:	U.S. Congressional Research.
Subjects:	Consumer price indexes. Cost and standard of living. Social security. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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Summary:	Provides background on social security automatic benefit increases, which change according to CPI. Reviews concerns on the fairness of the increases and appropriateness of using CPI as the measure for change. Summarizes recent proposals to change the method calculating cost-of-living adjustments for social security. Includes tables.
Item Description:	Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed June 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC. CRS Report. Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource.