What does price indexing mean for Social Security benefits?

Munnell, Alicia Haydock, and Mauricio Soto. “What does price indexing mean for Social Security benefits?”. Just the Facts 14, Chestnut Hill, Mass.: Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, January 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104481.
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Abstract

A potential component of the administration's Social Security proposal is to shift from "wage indexing" of benefits to "price indexing." This change sounds modest, but, in fact, would change the nature of the Social Security program. Price indexing would preserve the purchasing power of Social Security benefits, but these benefits would represent an ever-declining percentage of earnings before retirement...

Title
What does price indexing mean for Social Security benefits?
Author
Munnell, Alicia Haydock
Soto, Mauricio
School
Carroll School of Management
Discipline
Finance
Center
Center for Retirement Research
Genre
report
Date Issued
January 2005
Publisher
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
Series Title
Just the Facts
Series Number
14
Version Identification
Version of record.
Persistent Link
http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104481
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Subject
Social Security

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