Fix the Debt = A Guise to Get You to Give Up Social Security
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1. Chained CPI is a significant benefit cut that compounds over time, hitting late old-age beneficiaries and the long-time disabled hardest. For a worker with average earnings retiring at age 65 in 2015, chained CPI would cut benefits $653 a year (3.7 percent) at age 75, $1,139 a year (6.5 percent) at age 85 and $1,611 a year (9.2 percent) at age 95.
The debates continue on the so-called ‘fiscal cliff’. Members of Congress recently met for a press conference to discuss the Chained CPI and how it’s a cut to Social Security.
Additionally, National Committee’s Rally Corps was there to let Congress know to keep their hands off Social Security!
Social Security needs to be off the table during these fiscal cliff debates. The Chained CPI is a CUT to Social Security.
There are several alternatives to cut the deficit rather than using the Chained CPI. Seniors, veterans, and middle-class rely on Social Security as a source of their income and can’t afford any cuts.
Congresswoman Donna Edwards speaks at a press conference about the Chained CPI and how it cuts Social Security benefits for everyone.
The NCPSSM Rally Corps stand in back of Representative Jan Schakowsky while she speaks about the Chained CPI and how it’s a cut to Social Security.
The ‘who’ and 'what’? Who does this Chained CPI affect? Everyone. What does it do? Cut Social Security benefits for everyone.
“Chained CPI” is a phrase floating around the Social Security debate that is important to current and future Social Security beneficiaries. Chained CPI would change the way cost of living adjustments (COLA) for Social Security and other other government programs are calculated. The COLA increase that is applied to Social Security, food stamps, Supplemental Security Income, and other programs is determined by the increase in the consumer price index (CPI). The formula has been changed over the years to attempt to make it a more realistic reflection of increases in the price of consumer goods, according to economists. The chained CPI assumes that when prices increase for one product, people substitute a less expensive product.
Chained CPI = Cut to Social Security. That simple.
Chained CPI for Social Security means forcing seniors, veterans onto food stamps.
If you follow this blog, you already know the Chained CPI – a proposed change to Social Security’s annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) – is really just backdoor attempt to cut Social Security benefits. A retiree who lived to age 85 would see a cumulative benefit cut of nearly $14,000.
Chained CPI will devastate seniors, veterans, and the disabled.
Here are some additional resources that go into depth about Chained CPI: One, two, and three!
The “chained CPI” has become one of the linchpins of the debate in Washington over what to do about the cost of Social Security. The idea is to ratchet back the annual cost-of-living adjustment provided to recipients by basing them no longer on the standard consumer price index, but this new creature. Its virtue, supposedly, is that it points to a slower inflation rate than the unchained index, by about .3% a year.
The Chained CPI = benefit cut to Social Security.