Separate Consumer Price Index for the Elderly? [electronic resource].

Corporate Author:: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Published:: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2006.
Physical Description:: 6 pages : digital, PDF file

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Discusses Federal indexing of social security benefits to increase the CPI for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W), and reviews concerns that CPI-W indexes may not accurately reflect the inflation experience of the elderly population. Examines expenditure patterns and average inflation rates of the elderly population, BLS experimental CPI for the elderly, and policy considerations.

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