Tag: Social Security
How it works, the issues for today and tomorrow.
2020 Social Security COLA looking doubtful
The CPI-W for January 2019 is 245.133, lower than December. This means at these rates there will not be a COLA for 2020. The average
Social Security and Medicare spending
The Congressional Budget Office estimated spending on Medicare and Social Security reached $1.3 trillion in 2018, according to the agency’s Budget and Economic Outlook: 2019 to
Social Security recipients; don’t count your chickens moving to the CPI-E
Some advocates and politicians have been arguing for years that the current determinate of the Social Security COLA, the CPI-W is not an accurate reflection
