Under the plan, the states were offered additional federal funding if they expanded Medicaid for eligible low-income adults. They could also earn an additional five-percentage-point federal match on their regular Medicaid expenditures for two years—not including costs for those newly eligible, dispro...
If the current year’s calculation is higher, there’s a cost of living increase, expressed as a percentage. The increase is typically announced in mid-October for Social Security benefit payments beginning in January of the following year. ...