Benefits, adjusted for income, are loaded monthly onto a government-issued debit card.
On Wednesday, the Labor Department reported that wages and benefits, adjusted for inflation, were down 0.6percentt in the January-March period, compared with a year earlier.
If the president signs the bill by mid-April, said Kenneth Apfel, the Social Security commissioner, the checks should be sent by May and monthly benefits adjusted by June.
"We are crammed full by the government itself," says José Carlos Motta, president of a special court that deals with pensioners claiming their rights to have benefits adjusted for inflation.
Limiting Medicare and Social Security spending involves re-indexing benefits, adjusting eligibility ages, shifting the growth rates of costs and making other changes that have their full fiscal impact only over the longer run.
There were strong associations between having interfering chronic pain and receiving disability benefits (adjusted OR=3.31, P<0.001) or being unemployed due to health reasons (adjusted OR=7.94, P<0.001, respectively).
Over the last two decades some LAC countries have gradually created programs to provide the uninsured with at least a subset of health benefits adjusted to the epidemiological and local needs of users (see Sect. 7).
"But anyone who is more than ten years away from retirement [at the time of a rewrite of the law] can reasonably expect to have their benefits adjusted," Rother says, adding that a delayed benefits cut is not only fairer but "politically expedient, because people younger than that aren't thinking that much about retirement".
It further reckons that a modern energy industry in China will be based on energy conservation, domestic development, diversity and environment protection, to strengthen international co-operation and mutual benefit, adjust and optimize the energy structure, and build a safe, stable, economical and clean modern energy industry system.
18 Conversely, an analysis of the UK National Hip Fracture Database found use of cement to be associated with a small but significant adjusted survival benefit (adjusted OR 0.83, 95% CI 0.72 to 0.96).
