Tie Social Security and Military Retirement raises to real economic indicators

Currently COLA raises are tied to older measures that are no longer indicative of what retiree’s need. Perhaps changing the CPI measures to what areas are more costly to seniors (i.e. insurance costs, medication expenses, food, and shelter cost increases) would better align SS and Military Retirement increases to make them closer to minimum wage for survival.
With both my social security and military retirement, I am paying for Medicare Part B and as Medicare costs increase, my social security does NOT adjust for those increases. This leaves many who cannot survive without obtaining outside employment, which, under SSA rules are punished with more loss in benefits by taking more money out of a necessary paycheck from employment wages. This is NOT the best way to treat retirees who have invested into these systems through employment and military service!

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