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    Your Social Security check will get a 2.8% boost in 2019

    Your Social Security check will get a 2.8% boost in 2019


    • The Social Security Administration announced that the cost-of-living adjustment for 2019 will be 2.8 percent, which is in line with a recent estimate.
    • The increase marks the biggest boost to benefits since 2012, when beneficiaries saw a 3.6 percent increase.
    • This latest cost-of-living adjustment will not be enough to make up for the buying power Social Security benefits have lost since 2000, according to one policy group.


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    Retirees who are collecting Social Security retirement benefits have reason to cheer: Your Social Security checks will be larger next year.

    The Social Security Administration announced that the cost-of-living adjustment for 2019 will be 2.8 percent.


    That is in line with the 2.8 percent increase the Senior Citizens League, a nonpartisan organization, predicted last month.


    Each year, the Social Security Administration assesses whether there should be an adjustment to benefits, so that their purchasing power keeps up with inflation. The agency uses the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, CPI-W, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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    #BREAKING! More than 67 million Americans will get a 2.8% increase in monthly #SocialSecurity and #SSI benefits in 2019. Check #SocialSecurityMatters later this morning for more info: http://ow.ly/zeMS30mbRuF #COLA #2019COLA

    5:33 AM - Oct 11, 2018



    This year's increase marks the biggest hike since 2012, when the cost-of-living adjustment was 3.6 percent.
    Retirees do not always get a raise. In 2016, 2011 and 2010 the cost-of-living adjustment was zero.


    Social Security cost-of-living adjustments in the past decade

    Year Cost-of-living adjustment
    2018 2.00%
    2017 0.30%
    2016 0.00%
    2015 1.70%
    2014 1.50%
    2013 1.70%
    2012 3.60%
    2011 0.00%
    2010 0.00%
    2009 5.80%
    2008 2.30%
    Source: Social Security Administration

    For retirees who have recently elected to take Social Security benefits, this could be the first time they see a "real increase" in their monthly checks, Joe Elsasser, president of Covisum, a provider of Social Security timing software, previously told CNBC.

    For those who are collecting an average Social Security benefit of about $1,400, the 2019 cost-of-living adjustment will amount to an extra $39 per month.


    The Medicare Part B premiums for next year have not been announced yet. Estimates peg those premiums at $135.50 in 2019 for those with incomes below $85,000.


    In the past the boost from the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment has been eaten up for many by higher Medicare premiums.


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    That is unlikely to happen to as many people this year as it did in 2018, according to Mary Johnson, Social Security and Medicare policy analyst at the Senior Citizens League.


    Individuals with Social Security benefits from around $600 to $634 could be most affected.


    "That group will likely see their Part B premium take up their entire COLA in 2019," Johnson said.


    The number of Social Security beneficiaries with benefits in that range is about 5 million, according to Johnson, though not all of those individuals are necessarily enrolled in Medicare.


    The boost that Social Security benefits see in 2019 will not make up for the buying power benefits have lost over the years.

    "Even though we're having the highest COLA since 2012, I think people still express frustration because their costs are still increasing faster," Johnson said.


    Social Security benefits have lost 34 percent of their buying power since 2000, according to a study released by the Senior Citizens League in June. While benefits have increased by 46 percent through cost-of-living increases since 2000, senior expenses have risen 96.3 percent, according to the nonpartisan senior group.


    Fastest-growing senior costs since 2000

    Item Average cost in 2000 Average cost in 2018 Percent increase
    Medicare Part B monthly premium $45.50 $134.00 195%
    Prescription drugs (Annual average out-of-pocket) $1,102.00 $3,172.72 188%
    Home heating oil (gal.) $1.15 $3.22 181%
    Homeowner's insurance (annual) $508.00 $1,342.05 164%
    Medigap $119.00 $306.64 158%
    Propane gas (gal.) $1.01 $2.60 157%
    Real estate taxes $690.00 $1,579.06 129%
    Total medical out-of-pocket expenses (National average, age 65 and up) $6,140.00 $13,304.00 117%
    Oranges (lb.) $0.61 $1.33 117%
    Source: Senior Citizens League

    Retirees are spending more of their Social Security benefits on health-care costs, according to separate research from the Senior Citizens League released in August.
    Medicare premiums and out-of-pocket spending took up one third to one half of Social Security benefits for about 30 percent of retirees, the research found.

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    Good!! They deserve it!!
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    Will get a BIGGER boost when you VOTE RED and deport ALL illegal aliens, TPS, visa overstays, asylum liars and refugees and get them off our benefits!

    Stop the government taking OUR money out of our Social Security and Medicare funds!

    Cut off ALL foreign aid and pay back our SS money.
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    The cola increase isn't a matter of "deserve' but rather LAW.

    By law, it is the official measure used by the Social Security Administration to calculate COLAs. Congress enacted the COLA provision as part of the 1972 Social Security Amendments, and automatic annual COLAs began in 1975. Before that, benefits were increased only when Congress enacted special legislation.

    Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Information | Social Security ...

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    The law exists because they deserve it. It's a cost-of-living increase tied to the Consumer Price Index. Minimum wage should be tied to it by law as well but with a cap, because our workers deserve it, too.
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