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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.
But much would come in the form of reduced Social Security benefits, notably accelerated increases in the retirement age and a one-percentage-point cut in annual cost-of-living benefit adjustments.
The new contract, while hardly lavish, did provide for small pay raises, plus cost-of-living increases.
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.