Upstate Voice on Nostr: Nikki Haley Coming After Your Social Security and Medicare Benefits Haley’s ...
Nikki Haley Coming After Your Social Security and Medicare Benefits
Haley’s proposals include changing how Social Security’s annual cost-of-living adjustments, tied to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), are calculated. She instead would link those increases to chained CPI, which is lower. “Those are the ones we tell the rules have changed, anyone new coming in this system,” said Haley, “That’s how you do entitlement reform. You let them know, it’s not going to be there for you anyway.."
Haley’s proposals include changing how Social Security’s annual cost-of-living adjustments, tied to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), are calculated. She instead would link those increases to chained CPI, which is lower. “Those are the ones we tell the rules have changed, anyone new coming in this system,” said Haley, “That’s how you do entitlement reform. You let them know, it’s not going to be there for you anyway.."