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Social Security Benefits to Increase 5.9% for 2022 (because of highest inflation in 40 years)
Wall Street Journal ^ | October 13, 2022 | Amara Omeokwe

Posted on 10/13/2021 6:30:48 AM PDT by karpov

Seniors and other Americans receiving Social Security benefits in 2022 will see the largest increase in their payments in four decades, reflecting surging inflation during the pandemic.

Next year’s cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, will be 5.9%, the Social Security Administration said Wednesday. The increase will translate to an addition of $92 to retirees’ average monthly benefit next year, bringing the amount to $1,657.

The nearly 6% cost-of-living adjustment is the largest since 1982, according to Social Security Administration data. The adjustment is calculated based on the Labor Department’s measure of inflation faced by blue-collar workers.

The Social Security Administration also said the maximum amount of earnings subject to the Social Security tax will increase to $147,000 in 2022 from $142,800 this year.

The extent to which the projected larger-than-usual Social Security adjustment makes retirees’ and other recipients feel more well off will largely depend on whether inflation eases next year compared with 2021, said Naomi Fink, a retirement economist at Capital Group, an investment manager.

Consumer prices have risen at the fastest rate in more than a decade this year because trillions of dollars in economic stimulus have supported consumer demand at a time when supplies for everything from toilet paper to new cars have been constrained because of pandemic disruptions.

“If price rises turn out to be fleeting and reflect temporary supply shocks and they subsequently show much more modest rises in 2022, then that would be quite positive for those that got that windfall cost-of-living adjustment,” said Ms. Fink, who added that scenario could position Social Security recipients to boost consumption.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: inflation; socialsecurity
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To: karpov

WHATSOCIAL SECURITY GIVETH, MEDICARE TAKETH AWAY.

IT’S ALL SMOKE AND MIRRORS........................


21 posted on 10/13/2021 6:50:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Tell It Right

Bingo!


22 posted on 10/13/2021 6:52:10 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: joshua c

Seniors and other Americans receiving Social Security benefits

Why do “other Americans” get Social Security? It is meant for workers who have paid into the system when they reach 62 years old. But the politicions have tapped into the fund and handed it to many others. As an example, if they want to help people who are born with or develop some sort of disability then fine, but set up a separate account to help them from. The Social Security fund will be “tapped out” pretty soon and most people don’t know why.


23 posted on 10/13/2021 6:58:47 AM PDT by PeteyBoy (The wall. Build it and they won't come. (Until they tear it down))
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To: karpov

The price of my Kombucha has increased 9%. How will I get by with a 5.9% increase? Will I have to resort to buying Cat Kombucha?


24 posted on 10/13/2021 7:06:41 AM PDT by Savage Rider
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To: joshua c

Inflation is at 8% right now. The inflation we feel in real costs and lost income was at 6% on 1 October 2021. Hence the 5.9% increase. I am not an Economist, but these were the numbers I recall from an article I read on the pending increase. For our household the real value of the increase lay not in the monthly check but the increase in allowable income earned before Social Security is taxed.


25 posted on 10/13/2021 7:07:07 AM PDT by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me.)
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To: Bon of Babble

Yeah, you don’t notice it so much as you fill the cart, but checkout is a total shock.


26 posted on 10/13/2021 7:21:55 AM PDT by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: Tell It Right

Correct. Rents for many seniors will increase as well.


27 posted on 10/13/2021 7:39:19 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Bringbackthedraft

About enough for 1.5 tanks of gas?

************

LOL. How true.

We try to buy most of our gas at COSTCO.


28 posted on 10/13/2021 7:42:15 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: PeteyBoy

But the politicions have tapped into the fund and handed it to many others.

************

Its THEIR vote buying fund.


29 posted on 10/13/2021 7:43:31 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Bon of Babble

If you have anything left over after the Medicare deduction from your SS check you might have enough to go to Walmart and buy a ham or a couple of Rotisserie chickens. (The cold ones are cheaper! Go Mondays!)

We can generally get one chicken to feed 3 people dinner for 3-4 days and then make stock for another day! It does get old after a while and you need to switch out to something else, but no to alpo!


30 posted on 10/13/2021 8:03:25 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: karpov

I got no raise where I work. Plotting my escape, shortly there will be an email to the group saying “I don’t work here anymore.”


31 posted on 10/13/2021 8:17:19 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: karpov

paywallless link:

https://archive.is/F6Imr


32 posted on 10/13/2021 8:20:37 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Tell It Right

........and gas, heating,fuel,milk and the list goes on. That 5.9 will be wiped out the 1st week of each month if not the 1st day.

BFD


33 posted on 10/13/2021 8:24:17 AM PDT by Bell Bouy II (No Fat Chicks, ev-ah)
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To: Bon of Babble

family visits...

What is wrong with you your not allowed “Family” anything


34 posted on 10/13/2021 8:25:20 AM PDT by Bell Bouy II (No Fat Chicks, ev-ah)
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To: Bell Bouy II

I agree 100%. I was just focusing on the gubment itself raising the price of Medicare, undoing the gubment’s supposed blessing to the elders. The gubment giveth, the gubment taketh away, even with the gubment making everything else expensive through inflation.


35 posted on 10/13/2021 8:27:15 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

It is interesting that Medicare increases are never mentioned when SS increases are announced. SS and Medicare are in tandem. Net increase to recipients of SS is close to nil.


36 posted on 10/13/2021 8:30:27 AM PDT by mountainfolk
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To: karpov

Did they release the IRMAA brackets?

Applying 5.9 percent gives single $94K, $118K, $147K, $175K, married $188K, $236K, $292K, and $350K. These brackets are rounded up to the nearest thousand.


37 posted on 10/13/2021 8:35:24 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: proxy_user

It just occurred to me that they will probably be increasing the IRMAA amounts as well. Both this, and the standard premiums, won’t be announced until later in the year.


38 posted on 10/13/2021 8:37:44 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: crusty old prospector

>>So, what is continuing to hold interest rates down? Manipulation?<<

Bingo!

The Fed’s main concern right now is what happens to the value of their portfolio when they stop supporting the bond market.


39 posted on 10/13/2021 8:40:58 AM PDT by Norseman (Defund the Left....completely!)
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To: Red Badger

I don’t have Medicare Part “B”. So I get the full increase, Yea!!!


40 posted on 10/13/2021 8:45:57 AM PDT by ktw (72 ID, Finally Retired after 25 years!)
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