To peruse something more dramatic than this would require traveling back to 1981 when retirees experienced their most remarkable COLA increase - 11.2%.
And also lack of stimulus funding this year could have an impact on inflation's tendency to level off.
Provided that trend persists, next year's rise may only be moderate in magnitude - if not surpassingly meager when compared with gains accrued by 2023.
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