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One type of Social Security adjustment could cut the 75-year shortfall in half - Fox Business

By Eric Revell

One type of Social Security adjustment could cut the 75-year shortfall in half - Fox Business

A flat-rate COLA proposal could close 50% of Social Security's 75-year fiscal shortfall, but the cost of waiting since 1987 has been enormous.

Social Security's looming insolvency in under a decade could be delayed by a change to how the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is calculated, with a new analysis finding that it could cut the… [+4481 chars]

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