It is a two-part deal - 3% on the table for both parties for the cost of living increase for 2002.
Government grants were inadequate in the face of "the astronomical increase of the cost of living, particularly food prices and prices of paraffin", he added.
Inflation, the rise in the cost of fuel and the increase in VAT means that the cost of living has risen at a time when most of us are experiencing pay freezes, pay cuts and, in some cases, unemployment.
That appellate court had already taken up the cost-of-living increase issue in 2001 in a case captioned Williams v.
Moreover, in Britain the shortage of available land in country areas means that the trend towards urban living may increase despite the rising cost of urban housing.
The reason that there were a couple of years where she did not get a cost-of-living increase was because even though she probably felt like the cost of food and gas and groceries were going up, the overall inflation index actually did not go up.
We have offered the RMT the same 3% cost of living increase this April and said let's talk about productivity.
Senior advocates, such as the AARP, have been lobbying for the payments, in part because Social Security recipients received no cost of living increase this year, for the second year in a row.
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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.
They have raised their per-viewer rates 110%in the last ten years, despite a 30% decline in their prime-time audience, more than making up for a 30% increase in the cost of living.
Over the years they have increased the retirement age slowly from 65 to 67, raised payroll taxes, delayed a cost of living increase and made as much as 85% of the once tax-exempt benefit checks taxable.
The bill also would accelerate the planned increase in the Social Security retirement age and adjust yearly cost-of-living increases to benefits.
They may need that deaf ear for their own constituents in the coming days as senior citizens and their advocates lament the second consecutive annual denial of a social security cost-of-living increase.
Chinese workers seem willing to change jobs for a slight increase in pay in order to stay above inflation as the cost of living in coastal China rises.
That means the military will receive a 1.45% increase in basic pay in May, which is still below the rising cost of living.
In 2010, employers felt particularly strong pressure to give their employees at least a 3 percent cost-of-living increase, since their employees had gone without an increase the previous year.
Also from this month, most working age benefits will increase by just one per cent - less than the likely rise in the cost of living.
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