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Next Year’s COLA? Who knows, but one can speculate.
It’s that time of the year, and the numbers that will determine the COLA calculation for next year are now being accumulated. For those pundits looking ahead to what the CPI-W comparison will yield in October, the speculation is a…
More on Social Security COLA Deficiencies
“Social Security’s annual COLA is failing the group of people it was most designed to protect: senior citizens.” This quote is excerpted from a post by The Motley Fool’s Sean Williams on www.fool.com, wherein he delineates several key reasons why the annual…
Dealing with Sub-Par COLAs
While the official announcement of 2019’s Social Security cost-of-living adjustment grinds toward its official release date, many of the pre-anouncement reports have been giddy about the possibility of a bump inching toward 3%. Not all of these reports have been…
Social Security COLA Talks Heating Up
We’re into that time of the year…the months where pundits begin to look closely at the CPI-W readings and formulate their forecast of what the July-September readings will be in relation to last year. The year-to-year comparison, of course, will…