Indexing Social Security Benefits

question 9

Multiple Choice

Indexing Social Security benefits

• A) adjusted them to the index of economic growth.
• B) increased it to the cost of living.
• C) adjusted them to the growth of the gross domestic product.
• D) made everyone involved rich.

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