Sentences with phrase «automatic cost of living increases»

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The Social Security Administration bases the automatic cost of living adjustments (COLA) increases for social security recipient on CPI - W, which is the Consumer Price Index For Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers.

Two additional states will receive automatic increases based on the cost of living effective Jan. 1.

Iowa Senator Tom Harkin and California Representative George Miller say their bill, introduced yesterday, would boost the minimum by 2015, followed by automatic annual increases tied to changes in the cost of living.

Cost - of - living increases would be automatic, avoiding what the attorney general called «the vicissitudes of Albany sausage - making.»

When asked how they «reduced their budget gaps» over the past two years, fewer than half had eliminated or limited cost of living raises for teachers, only 30 percent cut automatic step increases, and just 13 percent trimmed benefits.

Without full cost of living protection (automatic increases to match the actual rate of inflation), the purchasing power of benefits drops and injured workers» poverty rises.