Social Security benefits to increase 2 percent next year

[loyalsister]

Making up for damage to ACA with what is essentially a bribe?

Over the past eight years, the annual COLA has averaged just above 1 percent. In the previous decade, it averaged 3 percent

http://www.post-gazette.com/business/money/2017/10/13/Social-Security-benefits-increase-2-percent-2018/stories/201710130122

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. The more old people they can kill the better for their pocket books.

[MattP]

2. Medicare copay increase will eat it

[Cartoonist]

3. Credit & Blame

Trumpists will credit Trump for the SS increase and blame the Democrats for the copay increase.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Lower than my last rent increase...

[Vinca]

5. WHOA . . . happy days are here again! How will I spend such largesse?

[Cicada]

6. The COLA is derived Mathematically from economic data

It is not subject to interpretation. Congress can override it but only by passing a law.

It is based on the objective consumer price index.