Inflation-Indexing Elements in Federal Entitlement Programs
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This report identifies key indexing elements in major federal entitlement programs under current law and presents the information in a summary table. The report provides a brief description of the measures of consumer price change used to index various elements of these programs under current law, as well as the alternative measure of consumer price change (the Chained CPI-U) that has been proposed for computing Social Security cost-of-living-adjustments (COLAs) and making inflation adjustments…
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Date:
April 24, 2013
Creator:
Nuschler, Dawn
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department