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Increase in benefits sought
University Daily Kansan, September 21, 1984 Page 9
WASHINGTON — Administration officials yesterday urged the U.S. House of Representatives to approve a cost-of-living increase for Social Security recipients, even though inflation is likely to rise by less than the amount needed to trigger the increase.
Under current law, if the inflation rate between the third quarter of 1983 and the third quarter of 1984 reaches less than 3 percent, Social Security recipients will not get an inflation adjustment in their benefit. In the Current rate it mounts project the inflation rate at just below 3 percent.
Charles Baker, unders secretary of Health and Human Services, praised the economic recovery and the current low inflation rate
in calling for the benefit increase.
'IT WOULD BE ironic and unfair if the 36 million Social Security beneficiaries — who were called upon last year to accept a delay in their 1983 COLA as part of the historic bipartisan solution to Social Security's financing crisis
- were denied a COLA in 1984, Baker told the House Ways and Means Committee.
The GOP-led Senate in July approved legislation for a one-time exception that would provide for the January cost-of-living increases even if the inflation rate did not reach 3 percent.
the bill also would increase the wage base for those paying Social Security payroll taxes from $37,800 to about $33,300, according to the administration.
Granting the cost-of-living increase would cost about $5 billion overall.
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THE WAYS AND Means Committee is expected to act next week. The measure could come to the floor as an attachment to the bill needed to lift the federal debt ceiling, which must be done before Congress adjourns Oct. 4.
Congress has with the cost of living increase, single Social Security beneficiaries would see their checks rise by $12 a month to an average of $454 and couples would get an additional $20 a month to an average of $720, according to Sen. Daniel Moynihan, D.N.Y., who sponsored the Senate bill.
Social Security recipients are paid benefits based on how long they worked and how much they earned. The computations are supposed to be updated annually.
Union strikes for less, returns after wage cut
By United Press International
The strike Wednesday by the 400-member Local 32 of the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Associate Associations, an agreement agreed to a union demand for substantially less in wages and fringe benefits.
NEWARK, N.J. — An insulators union returned to work today after a one-day strike that protested a contract offer that contained "too much money," a union official said yesterday.
The strike, aimed at preserving current employment levels, ended with union members ratifying a pact Wednesday.
"We turned down the original offer because they were trying to offer us
too much money," said James Grogan, business manager for Local 32 and president of the state Building and Construction Trades Council
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"It was irresponsible. It would
have just about priced us out of the
market." Grogan said.
George Kelly, spokesman for the Heat and Cold Insulators Contractors of New Jersey, called the situation "very unusual and very beneficial to the industry."
Grogan said the job action was in line with efforts to cut costs.
Management negotiators offered a $2.50 increase over two years to bring the total package of the final contract to $26.57 an hour.
At the recommendation of the Local 32 leaders, the union rejected the offer and demanded a 90-cent raise over two years.
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