Separate Consumer Price Index for the Elderly?

Format:

• Book
• Government document

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Consumer price indexes.
• Cost and standard of living.
• Inflation (Finance).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (6 pages, digital, PDF file)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2009.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Discusses Federal indexing of social security benefits to increase the CPI for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W), and reviews concerns that CPI-W indexes may not accurately reflect the inflation experience of the elderly population. Examines expenditure patterns and average inflation rates of the elderly population, BLS experimental CPI for the elderly, and policy considerations.

Notes:

• Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Dec. 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.
• CRS Report.

Other Format:

Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Separate Consumer Price Index for the Elderly?

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