This is posted as a follow up to my response to Ohyyjj's blog. This is what was reported on the news yesterday, October 24, 2009. We need the Health Reform Act now!! check out MSNBC for the rest of this article.
The news that Social Security
benefits will likely be frozen next year dismayed many older Americans, who said they feared that rising expenses for medication and other necessities would drive them into retirement poverty.
“A lot of them aren’t going to be able to survive,” Anne Gondek, a retiree in Chicopee, Mass., said Monday, after the federal program for the elderly and disabled projected that for the first time in 34 years, there would be no cost of living adjustment (COLA) in payments for the next two years.
Hope it's helpful....
Blueberrypi/Kathy
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