A Separate Consumer Price Index for the Elderly?

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aging.

Consumer price indexes.

Cost and standard of living.

Occupations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[United States] [publisher not identified] 2011

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 of the elderly population, BLS experimental CPI for the elderly, and policy considerations

This report is one in a series of updates. For the most recent coverage of this report series, please see 11-RS-20060c in the 2011 issue

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

Publisher Number:

CRS-2012-DSP-0211

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