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Osborne says that from next year he will increase benefits, with the exception of pension and pension credits, in line with the lower CPI index of inflation, instead of the RPI index.
Hence there is no impact on the CPI index.
This will be the CPI index, but will include a proxy for housing costs.
This is not the case when using the CPI index and we thus have a natural robustness check.
This will be a version of the current CPI index, but adjusted to measure changes in the cost of buying and owning a home.
You may argue that it doesn't really matter what we or anyone else thinks of the way the CPI index is calculated.
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Hourly and monthly wages are deflated by the regional CPI indices to the base year of 1994.
In April Barack Obama's budget proposed using the chained CPI to index Social Security and federal military and civil-service retirement benefits, tax brackets and tax breaks.
Using the chained CPI to index Social Security and other programs would mean that benefits would be a bit lower than under current law.
A chained CPI inflation index would alter the way cost-of-living adjustments are made for Social Security recipients, slowing increases and reducing the benefits for seniors and the disabled.
Moving to a "chained CPI" inflation index would alter the way cost-of-living adjustments are made for Social Security recipients, slowing increases and thereby reducing the benefits for senior citizens and the disabled.
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