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Old Posted Jan 20, 2021, 7:00 PM
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Originally Posted by ardecila View Post
Doesn't that suggest the pension COLAs should be tied to CPI then, rather than some arbitrary percentage?
absolutely. the fixed-percentage COLA increases were very short-sighted since people in the 90's apparently didn't have the imagination that inflation can be significantly less than 3%...
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