The only thing I have to point out about the Chained vs. Unchained CPI....
is that we are talking about decreasing the future yearly increase in inflation based changes to SS and SSI.
I'm not saying I like it, as a matter of fact, I don't particularly care for this proposed change because I receive disability now. But I think people, via some of the posts here about this, are looking at this as a cut in present payments from SS and SSI.
Now I have always thought that the Consumer Price Index is far too broad of an index to really know how inflation impacts people at different times in their life.
For instance, a person on disability would probably have higher costs for medicine as well as medical devices. That is true for me as my drugs and other devises and doctor bills take more than half of my benefit.
I just want to point that out.
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