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Mack
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Love My New SS Check...
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12/10/2017 5:49:01 PM
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SS benefit went up 2% and the Medicare Deduction went up 21%. Net 19% backing up.
Wow! I just love those COLA calculations...
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MrHodja
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Love My New SS Check...
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12/10/2017 6:59:17 PM
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Seems one gets penalized for trying to better their existence. My 2% hike ended up in a smaller check as well.
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wix
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Thank o-BAMMIEcare....
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12/10/2017 7:09:56 PM
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Somebody has to pay for the o-BAMMIEcare disaster......why not us rich retirees!!
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kuss
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Love My New SS Check...
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12/10/2017 9:59:36 PM
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Well let's see; if the average SS check is $1,000.00 or about that, then 2% would raise it $20.00.
Medicare runs about $105.-- a month and 19% increase = $19.95 or thereabouts.
Seems the average bloke is a nickel ahead. ;o}
Still not as good as the price increase of bacon!
j.kuss
p.s. still looking for a sailor to crew my 15.5' Albacore on Cherokee Lake.
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Talullahhound
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In the Same Boat
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12/11/2017 8:46:19 PM
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My pension went up 2% and my health insurance went up by 12 percent - oh yes, and my drug plan is creating still another payment authorization, to allow them to make a decision to not pay for brand-name drugs. I have nothing against generic, but I have two that I must take the brandname - one because there is no generic and the other because the generic doesn't work for me. I read an article last night that said it is getting to the point where your medicine may be cheaper buying it yourself, vice through your drug plan.
I know that one tends to get a bit insulated when one works in Washington, but do these decision makers have any grip on the real world? I could plot on a graph how much food has gone up, and it isn't a matter of eating chicken, vice steak.
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Rich
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In the Same Boat
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12/12/2017 5:45:37 AM
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The inflation numbers have been rigged for years for obvious reasons.
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Talullahhound
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In the Same Boat
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12/12/2017 11:14:22 PM
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The inflation numbers changes, and so does the formula for cost of living. I have no faith in statistics and calculations. Numbers can be manipulated in any way to show what you want. My problem is this: when I started my career, I was promised a pension that would be adjusted for cost of living (people who paid into SS had the same promise made to them). That is not what any of us are getting.
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