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Old 11-19-2013, 12:07 PM
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Default Question on COLA for SS

This may be a silly question but I have not yet begun to take SS and am unclear. When they say there is a 1.5% COLA increase, on what number are they increasing? Is it on some original base? Or is it on the monthly payment at which time you begin collecting? And then when they give the next increase, do they give the percentage increase on the prior increase or on an original amount?