How will the Democrat Party fear-mongers blame this on the GOP?
Preliminary figures suggest a benefit increase of roughly 1.5 percent, which would be among the smallest since automatic increases were adopted in 1975.
Next year's raise will be small because consumer prices, as measured by the government, haven't gone up much in the past year.
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