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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders: 'You DON'T CUT Social Security, You EXPAND IT"
WASHINGTON -- Tens of millions of Social Security beneficiaries will not get a raise in 2016, the government announced on Thursday. "With consumer prices down over the past year, monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits for nearly 65 million Americans will not automatically increase in 2016," the Social Security Administration said in a press release. The news comes on the heels of a debate between Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has advocated changing the way cost-of-living adjustments are calculated so that seniors are more likely to get annual raises.
"My view is that when you have millions of seniors in this country trying to get by -- and I don't know how they do on $11,000, $12,000, $13,000 a year -- you don't cut Social Security, you expand it," Sanders said during Tuesday night's debate.
Clinton, on the other hand, declined to say during the debate if she supported expanding benefits in the way Sanders did. Her campaign has not responded to further requests for comment from The Huffington Post. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), meanwhile, indicated this week that he wanted to make Social Security's cost-of-living adjustments less generous as part of a budget deal with President Barack Obama.
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Bernie Sanders: 'You DON'T CUT Social Security, You EXPAND IT" (Original Post)
Segami
Oct 2015
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)1. Want to improve the economy? Expand SS and implement Medicare for All.
FloridaBlues
(4,036 posts)2. All Dem candidates want to keep ss and expanding it
Scuba
(53,475 posts)3. Including Pete Peterson's pal?