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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.
A recent cost-of-living survey ranked Shanghai as the fifth most expensive city in the world, ahead of London, Geneva, and New York.
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.
percent of the cost associated with the annual increases in federal salaries is due to cost-of-living and locality pay adjustment.
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.