Articles Archive for 19 October 2011
Account For Change, Your Financial Fitness »
By The Associated Press
Some 55 million Social Security recipients will get a 3.6 percent increase in benefits next year, their first raise since 2009, the government announced Wednesday.
The increase, which starts in January, is tied to a measure of inflation released Wednesday morning.
About 8 million people who receive Supplemental Security Income will also receive the 3.6 percent cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, meaning the announcement will affect about one in five U.S. residents.
There was no COLA in 2010 or 2011 because inflation was too low. Those were the first two years …
Account For Change, Risky Business, Taking Stock »
Are we heading back … in the future?
Where we were … where we are … where are we going?
Oct 18, 2011 (video 16:15)
The great debate …
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