What Inflation Index Is Used For Social Security?

The Senate Finance Committee established the Advisory Commission to Study the CPI (also known as the Boskin Commission) in 1996 to assess the CPI’s accuracy as a cost-of-living index. According to the Boskin Commission, CPI bias likely overestimated annual increases in the cost of living by 1.1 percentage points. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has […]

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