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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Social Security thinks inflation is only 6%,
why did my local Dollar Tree Store just become the $1.25 Store?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)VarryOn
(2,343 posts)It's going to be inflation. Covid is resolving.
Elessar Zappa
(13,952 posts)For the sake of the midterms, I hope thats the case.
MichMan
(11,900 posts)The Mouth
(3,148 posts)between inflation and the rate of inflation.
What goes up, seldom comes down, except for a very few things (like gasoline).
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)We are going to be fucked. The chained cpi is stupid.
Make payments rise with the real costs of things.
Now that covid raise on foodstamps is discontinued,while groceries cost has grown so much.
Again we are fucked.
Wish Biden could do something about this and stop the shell game of giving us 2 bucks than reducing food stamps 2 bucks so we never really get a raise.
Food costs have soared. The cost of everything has soared.
Why hasen't ssi disability payments risen to accomodate costs ?