My guess is that most Freepers are retired and receiving Social Security payments. Many Freepers are also disabled veterans who receive a monthly award payment. The COLA percentage increase for Social Security will apply to their VA checks as well.
Me on both counts, and I'm still working..................for now.,.................
Want to hear something that will boil your blood? My grandma is a Canadian citizen and will get getting social security.
I’m part of a two person construction business with my best friend and work there as contract labor/self employed-it is my perfect idea of work-physical to keep fit, utilize my job safety/worker safety skills and we barter if the customers have no cash-and this “raise in benefits” is not going to help me or my compadre at all-he and I will be paying more self-employment tax, it will raise monthly mediscare premiums, and there is the gas for work-we both drive 4x4s out of necessity-etc-most working class people like me will be lucky to break even because of the way prices on gas and food, etc are rising-this was just another stupid democrat idea-bread and circuses for the roman mob-many of us are better off if they will just leave us the f*** alone to make a decent living wage...