Public pension benefits were indexed to inflation.
Under its complex rules, deposits (many of which have been frozen since last year) were indexed to inflation.
The principal amount was indexed to inflation but not the interest payments.
But it was never indexed to inflation, and as a result it has been creeping up on a growing number of middle-income taxpayers.
Therefore, any cash transfer scheme would require that the transfers be indexed to inflation in the local area, which is highly complex.
Switching Medicaid to a block grant, indexed to inflation and population, and requiring wealthy states to pay most of their share, would encourage states to control costs.
This arrangement holds down both wages and permanent employment.Moreover, permanent workers are used to annual pay increases indexed to inflation under nationally negotiated agreements.
If you look at the Treasury real yields, the interest rate on US 5-years indexed to inflation is now around -.5, that's right, minus 0.5.
Over the weekend, the committee negotiating the Democratic Party platform, which will be adopted at the Party Convention, in Philadelphia, later this month, approved language backing a national minimum of fifteen dollars an hour, with the figure indexed to inflation.
Social Security benefits are indexed to inflation; indeed, that's what the recent debate over whether to change indexation from one measure of inflation to another was all about.
That's one reason that economists who see benefits of minimum wages would like to see minimum wages indexed to inflation, allowing the minimum wage to increase automatically as the economic damages fell.
