08.08.2011 Policy Points

A Cascading Cut

The Economic Policy Institute explains how a change to the inflation formula used to compute Social Security benefits would reduce benefits in a way that compounds sharply over time.  If proposed changes were to take effect, an average-wage worker retiring in 2011 would receive $1,754 less per year in 2031 than he/she would under current law.

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