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Social Security & Medicare

ThingsGottaChange

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3. Here's COLAs from 1975 to 2012

Reply to FogerRox (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 02:07 AM

Oct 2013

Read it and weep. Obama made it 0% two years in a row. Good thing it costs almost nothing to live anymore!

Year COLA
1975 8.0
1976 6.4
1977 5.9
1978 6.5
1979 9.9
1980 14.3
1981 11.2
1982 7.4
1983 3.5
1984 3.5
1985 3.1
1986 1.3
1987 4.2
1988 4.0
1989 4.7

Year COLA
1990 5.4
1991 3.7
1992 3.0
1993 2.6
1994 2.8
1995 2.6
1996 2.9
1997 2.1
1998 1.3
1999 2.5
2000 3.5
2001 2.6
2002 1.4
2003 2.1
2004 2.7

Year COLA
2005 4.1
2006 3.3
2007 2.3
2008 5.8
2009 0.0
2010 0.0
2011 3.6
2012 1.7

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Rumors have it that the next SS COLA will be about 1.5% [View all] FogerRox Oct 2013 OP

i guess it`s better than nothing. madrchsod Oct 2013 #1

How many time over the last 10 years was it 0%? FogerRox Oct 2013 #2

Here's COLAs from 1975 to 2012 ThingsGottaChange Oct 2013 #3

Pretty healthy increases in the 70's early 80's. SammyWinstonJack Oct 2014 #4

Yeah, same time I got 14.5% CDs from my savings bank ... n/t moonscape Sep 2015 #7

0% in 2009? PRB May 2015 #5

COLAs are based on cost of living increases/inflation FogerRox Jun 2015 #6

Period of high inflation during the Carter years n/t moonscape Sep 2015 #8