{"id":4603,"date":"2017-10-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/2-cost-of-living-adjustment-just-announced-by-social-security-for-2018\/"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:32:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T23:32:17","slug":"2-cost-of-living-adjustment-just-announced-by-social-security-for-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/13\/2-cost-of-living-adjustment-just-announced-by-social-security-for-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"2% Cost of Living Adjustment Just Announced by Social Security for 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Social Security recipients will receive a 2% increase in their benefit in 2018.&nbsp;&nbsp; This benefit will affect more than 61 million Social Security beneficiaries and 8 million Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries.&nbsp; The increase is tied to the Consumer Price Index as determined by the Department of Labor\u2019s Bureau of Labor Statistics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0For more information, see the\u00a0<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/factsht_cola2018_2_0.doc\">2018 Social Security Fact Sheet<\/a>, provided by the Social Security National Press Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Security recipients will receive a 2% increase in their benefit in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"post_statement":"","post_description":"","post_cta":"","post_button":"Read More","post_button_url":"","compliance_id":"","post_disclaimer":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[57],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5052,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603\/revisions\/5052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}