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Social Security recipients will soon start receiving a record-high increase to their benefits, with the first larger payment set to be delivered to recipients this week.The increase, known as a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), is the largest since 1981, when recipients saw an 11.2% jump....
Bush's initiative to reform the Social Security. Impetus of the initiative; Reason for the decrease in the number of workers paying into the U.S. Social Security System; Affirmation on the contrariety...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed at a rally with union leaders last week to hold a vote on the bill this week. …What’s unfair is rewarding high-paid government workers with larger Social Security benefits than they earned. That’s essentially what the bill would do. …Many state...
Social Security benefit rates rise in tandem with thecost of living, as measured by the U.S. Department of Labor’sConsumer Price Index (CPI-W). This index is boosted by increasedinflationrates that raise the cost of goods and services. To offset these costs and ensure that thepurchasing ...
Welcome to the latest edition ofThe Week in Security, which brings you the newest headlines from both the world and our team across the full stack of security: application security, cybersecurity, and beyond. This week: New research points to a trend in the rise o...
The proposal for an emergency 3% COLA next year comes as the Social Security Administration this week officially announced a 1.3% increase for 2021. "The pathetic 1.3% cost of living increase that Social Security is going to give to seniors across the country nowhere near keeps u...
Even though the Social Security Administration announced the adjustment this week, seniors and others on the program will have to wait until January to receive their higher payments. While the COLA will actually go into effect with the December 2022 benefits, those payments will be made in January...
Efforts to get the Senate to vote on a bill to expand Social Security benefits are intensifying, as the House-passed Social Security Fairness Act enjoys rare bipartisan support but has only a short window of time — less than four weeks — to be passed....
Social Security is top among Democrats’ agendas this week, and one common thread appears to run through their proposed solutions: raise taxes on the wealthy. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren – a 2020 presidential hopeful – released her plan to shore up the solvency of the program on Thursd...