[SeekAndFind]

RE: So if your SS payment is $2000 say a month, then in the future, instead of getting $2,050, you will get $2048 a month.

And how will they calculate inflation?

[PIF]

And how will they calculate inflation?
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Have no idea - they will use what ever arcane system they use now, guaranteed to reflect the lowest possible increase they can get way with.

[MIA_eccl1212]

By doing it the same way they do it today.
It’s called creative lying.