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The fundamental goal of COLA is to compensate service members for the high cost of living at certain duty stations. COLA rates are based on a service member's pay grade, years of service, and number of dependents. An area is considered high cost if the cost of living for that area exceeds 108% of that national average of non-housing costs.
This wasn't just an arbitrary date I picked to calculate a long-term average. 1975 was the first year when Social Security COLAs were based on Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation data.
Mounting costs led Congress to pursue reforms to the military retirement system during the 1980s. Under the National Defense Authorization Act of 1981, the military moved from calculating retirement benefits based on the "final pay," or base pay on the final day of active service, to the "High-3" system. [9]
The group’s latest COLA estimate is well below earlier estimates this year — estimates that projected a Social Security increase as high as 10.5% in 2023. However, even an increase of 8.7% ...
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How the new COLA can affect your retirement plan in 2025. ... Take 2023, for example, when the COLA was 8.7%. A huge boost is nice, but inflation in 2022 was also the highest it had been in four ...
The average Social Security COLA from 1975 to 2023 was 3.8%. However, the sky-high inflation in the 1970s and early 1980s skews this average somewhat. The median Social Security COLA during the ...
The retirement benefit structure of CCCERA is based upon the County Employees Retirement Law (CERL) of 1937, commonly referred to as the “37 Act.” On March 6, 1944, the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors voted to adopt an ordinance giving county voters the opportunity to accept or reject the CERL as the framework for retirement ...