Social Security benefits to get a 1.6% boost in 2020

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

It’s official: Your Social Security checks will get a modest increase next year.

The Social Security Administration announced Thursday that the cost-of-living adjustment for 2020 will be 1.6%.

That number is less than what retirees have received in recent years. In 2019, they got a 2.8% bump, while in 2018 the increase was 2%.

Still, it’s better than zero, which retirees saw in 2010, 2011 and 2016.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/retirement/social-security-administration-announces-benefit-bump-for-2020/ar-AAIzLJC

Hey, be thankful I didn't cut it back - Donald J Trump

[BumRushDaShow]

1. CSRS retiree and survivor annuitants too.

Agree that it is better than nothing.

[Opel_Justwax]

2. Pennies from heaven. But with VA pay it will help in the long run.

When I was young I never thought I would get disabled, but stuff happens.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Might just cover my rent increase...

[Trailrider1951]

10. Nope, not for me

Social Security increase = $26.01 if they don't increase my Medicare premiums
Last rent increase in July = $40.00 Nope, not even close

[Historic NY]

4. Meanwhile my town taxes are going up 4% ,

my pension went up 15 dollars a month, school taxes another 200+ each payment, medicare is refusing to pay for tests, mri, sad because I had lifetime medical until I got hurt. Even the cemetery wants money, I thought I didn't have to pay it until I was dead....humm. I really beginning to think I want a middle finger tombstone. At least I get the satisfaction of knowing it offends people.

[Blue_true]

7. Why don't you arrange to get cremated after you die.

It is cheaper if you forego a church service and celebration of life ceremony.

For me, I may have come into the world with a cry, but I plan to leave it as silently and anonymously as possible, and I want to immediately be returned to the earth, not rot over many decades.

[Historic NY]

8. Are you kidding I own the real estate....

already.

[Blue_true]

9. Even if I owned the real estate, the thought of slowly rotting over a century

is off-putting. I would rather be turned to ash immediately and spread on the soil.

Florida allows people to be buried on their land. I just have no interest in that or in not being embalmed so that I rot quicker. The quickest route is how the ancient Norse did it.

[a kennedy]

5. "Hey, be thankful I didn't cut it back - tRump

Ya you son of a bitch, it’s NOT UP TO YOU TO CUT IT OFF.

[wasupaloopa]

6. And Medicare takes it away

[bullwinkle428]

12. Oh dear...I DO hope the billionaires can afford to finance that rate hike!!