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Example sentences for: cost-of-living

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The new contract, while hardly lavish, did provide for small pay raises, plus cost-of-living increases.
These included a 20 percent increase in Social Security benefits, plus automatic cost-of-living adjustments; the "black lung" disability benefit program for miners; and creation of the Environmental Protection Agency as well as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
It also was able to take account of the dollars associated with actual cost-of-living adjustments, health insurance and the like, which were higher than earlier projected figures.
mandatory pay and benefit costs resulting primarily from federal cost-of-living and locality pay adjustments, based on Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance, increased participation in the Federal Employees Retirement System, and an increase in the estimated number of retirees--$17,554,000;
A panel of economists appointed by Congress is expected to propose a new inflation index to replace the Consumer Price Index . The new index will reduce the official inflation rate, thereby trimming annual cost-of-living increases in Social Security and other federal benefits.