The official inflation rate are gamed for politics and not anywhere near the real numbers. Everyone is falling behind.
The one thing my wife and I personally have going for us is that though we live on social security, we’re in a very low cost part of the country, kentucky. This means that our increase in social security every year is actually more than our increase in cost of living. At least that’s the way it’s been so far. We’ll see how long that lasts.