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SOCIAL security payments will keep pace with the American standard of living for the next 50 years, according to Mrs. Hazel F. Crumpton, social security district manager in Winchester.
“A recent change in the law ha§ made social security inflation-proof,” she ¥ said. ”Incr6ases in benefits are tie<j directly to increases in the cost of living. Each year, beginning in 1974, living costs will be compared with those of the year before. If living costs have increased 3 percent or more and a general social security benefit increase has not been enacted, benefits will be increased by the same percentage the following January.”
The first automatic increase in benefits could be for January 1975. *
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