Inflation-Indexing Elements in Federal Entitlement Programs

Nuschler, Dawn

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Consumer price indexes;    Economic policy;    Cost of living;    Consumers;    Social security;   

RP-ID  :  R42000
RP-ID  :  R42000_2013Apr24

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report identifies key indexing elements in major federal entitlement programs under current law and presents the information in a summary table. The report provides a brief description of the measures of consumer price change used to index various elements of these programs under current law, as well as the alternative measure of consumer price change (the Chained CPI-U) that has been proposed for computing Social Security cost-of-living-adjustments (COLAs) and making inflation adjustments to other federal programs.