State workers have not received cost-of-living increases in four years and no merit-based raises since 2001.
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The goal is to take several years before cost-of-living increases begin to reduce its value.
The way Social Security is set up is each year there's a cost-of-living adjustment.
Not indexing tax rates for cost-of-living increases by city and region is also unfair.
The AP notes that Romney has supported cost-of-living minimum wage increases for a decade.
The way the system works is you automatically get a cost-of-living adjustment based on the inflation rate.
In addition, the higher your initial benefits, the larger the dollar value of any annual cost-of-living adjustments.
If gold stays at its current levels, expect to see cost-of-living indexes hit increases of 5% or more.
For example, retirees who were expecting a 3.5% increase in cost-of-living adjustments this year will receive no increase.
We adjusted salary data to account for cost-of-living expenses and discarded any school with a response rate below 15%.
That appellate court had already taken up the cost-of-living increase issue in 2001 in a case captioned Williams v.
They include such things as paying workers based on a formula that allows them to meet basic cost-of-living needs.
By changing the fine print on cost-of-living adjustments, Obama's plan would ensure that benefits rise more slowly than inflation.
Fleischer was less emphatic about adjusting cost-of-living benefits or raising the retirement age.
Social Security recipients have not had a cost-of-living increase for two years now.
For true equality, wages could also be adjusted for the inflation of high cost-of-living areas compared to low ones.
The proposal to reduce cost-of-living adjustments also has some merit, but it would especially hurt the oldest Social Security recipients.
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Ten states saw minimum-wage increases at the beginning of this year, all but one due to an automatic cost-of-living bump.
Many workers haven't gotten cost-of-living raises for a few years, although some get pay boosts linked to longevity or new credentials.
It is very likely that she will see a COLA, a cost-of-living increase next year, because inflation actually rose this year.
Many workers haven't gotten cost-of-living raises since the contracts lapsed, although some get increases linked to longevity or acquiring new credentials.
The bill also would accelerate the planned increase in the Social Security retirement age and adjust yearly cost-of-living increases to benefits.
In Cook County, salaries have increased by as much as 90 percent since 1998 due to cost-of-living adjustments and longevity bonuses.
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Earlier this month, President Barack Obama proposed to tweak the formula for calculating the cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for Social Security recipients.
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Indeed, a rising cost-of-living during the 1980s and 1990s saw the yen-value of gold fall, down by 75% over that 20-year stretch.
Although it is not at the top of the cost-of-living league, it is pricier than the European competition outside Switzerland and Denmark.
They may have had help from one-off cost-of-living adjustments to government pensions.
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According to Numbeo, a user-generated cost-of-living statistics website, overall consumer prices (including rent) in Seoul can be approximately 35% cheaper than Tokyo.
Workers are almost never asked to take nominal pay cuts, but when prices are rising, most employers do give their employees cost-of-living increases.
Starting at the end of December, millions of Social Security recipients will start to see higher payments due to the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increase.
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