Social Security checks to grow
1.7% rise among least since ’75
Posted: October 17, 2012 at 5:37 a.m.
More than 56 million Americans on Social Security will get raises averaging $19 a month come January, one of the smallest increases since automatic adjustments for inflation were adopted in 1975, the government announced Tuesday.
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