The amount is to be released Thursday and is expected to be in the neighborhood of a 8.7% increase.

CNBC, WSJ

About right considering 23% inflation.

I'm sure they'll go up on Medicare to make up for it too.

Double that.

CSRS COLA 8.7

FERS COLA 7.7

If you know, you know.....

Lotta still working, and at the bill paying/family raising broke ass stage
of life, will get a couple percent "raise" and double digit insurance
increases, along with increased deductibles and co-pays



Unreal what employee insurance looks like now.
The boss man is paying through the nose, many are not even
covering families. Employee only.

Employee paying $800+/month
For a policy that has $50-100 co-pay and $5k family deductible.
Our single is around $35/w/o with $2k deductible.
And from what I see most is worse.

Yes, they will take the increase for your medicare cost. Nothing gained is nothing lost.

Don't matter

I just paid $12 for 36 eggs at wally world

>>>>>>>>>>FJB<<<<<<<<<<<<

Medicare goes down like 6 bucks a month.
But doesn't off set last years 14% increase in the least.
Insulin total out of pocket is supposed to be 35 a month.
Some other stuff Medicare wise is supposed to go into effect in 2025 IIRC...

Honk for Joey will Tout this schit even though the inflation rate is waaaay beyond 3rd quarter figures for the cola calc.

Using the CPI W is slanted against seniors.
Notice how the price of gas went down during the july, aug, sept calculation period for cola...

Uh huh....



This schit can all be Google fu,d....

Fug medicare.......

was doing just fine till I turned 65

Utah/Idaho Teamsters picked my (wife's) insurance tab

Now I'm paying $200+ a month just for me.....off the top of my SSA

Wife's stayed the same

WTF over ........

I'm 59.
Glad I ain't gotta do that schit till 65

Collect SS at 62.
Tricare for life, VA tier 1, and that Medicare schit to look forward too at 65.
And I hardly go to the docs except for mech fix joint surgery stuff.

Paying for all the freeloading fuuuks who never worked a day in their life is how I look at it.

$4 a dozen for eggs!!!!?

I guess Ky. has a few attributes, $1.79 here.

It all evens out...until the gov't get's involved.

Our health share organization went to $800/mo. We were already paying $500/mo.
We told 'em, "Kiss my grits!" and now put $400/mo as cash in gun safe.
A medical test I needed cost $1500! 🤯
When I informed them I would be bringing cash, the price dropped to $500! 😯

"... Employee paying $800+/month
For a policy that has $50-100 co-pay and $5k family deductible. ..."

Y E S

$11 fuggin dollars for 2/18 packs of eggs

On recent orders I paid $6-7 for the same twin pack of eggs

May be a geographical location

who the phhuck knows

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Va...ulfillmentIntent=Pickup&athbdg=L1200

FWIW

these 36 pks are GTG

no broken eggs in the shrink wrapped pkg's

I’ll loan you $5

A dozen eggs is $3 at the local produce stand. $4.50 for 18.
Home ground whole wheat flour is $5/3 pounds. Home ground corn meal is $2.50/1.5 pounds.

The eggs, flour and cornmeal taste a whole lot better! 😉

Yeah, my local grocery price on jumbos jumped about $.80 in a week or so.

And the roasted chickens keep getting smaller……

More vote buying with our money

If that ain’t some Boomer schidt

8.7%? Congrats! I got a 2% raise at my job in June

iff you buy eggs

U lost it

say what ya like

have 27 yrs in Teamsters

10 yrs in UMWA

Hell ya

different world back then

Timing is everything.

Unfortunately Tikka, I’m a Teamster guy too. Raise barely pays dues. Democrats/Liberals killing this country. Sick as [bleep] paying for the lazy azzholes

when I retired......dues were $62/month

UPS employees only then.......can't recall the dues paying members #


.Many.........do the math

I miss nuthin about working for UPS

Unions Suck. For a long time too, criminal cartels is all they are. [bleep] them.

37 yrs with 'em for me...........

I'm doing OK

Again

different world back then

Hey....

where's Jimmy ?

Did they make you vote for Carter and Clinton?

The average SS increase is estimated to be approximately 145$/month.

Everything up. Stopped at a Wendy burger on the way to camp late Saturday afternoon. Double burger and small fry $9.59 No drink.

Coupons, man, coupons!

Only smelly grandmas use coupons.

Let’s go Brandon 🤬

Wush dey hurri up

Smoke pic nic bout ta go on sell at th market

Gettn low on bodcat meet

Will it cover the cost of gas in some places?

Bridgeport CA the other day, approaching $8 per gal:

Honk for corksucker Joe

When did you buy last?
$4 here too. Thought i heard wrong when my wife told me that.

Heating oil at $5.19 and needs to go higher.
The retailer has been absorbing increases out of markup, margup is
close to not covering costs.

Of course everyone accuses them of gouging, ripping folks off.
Folks c ant understand th at these companies would prefer lower prices.
High oil costs them, the run trucks.
Their profit comes from margins, not retail price.

In a good market they could sell for $1.00,
have a decent markup,
lower costs,
sell more fuel,
make more money.

they're not getting smaller.... you are now buying pigeons...but they taste like Chicken....

Yeah…. Just enuff to put one into higher tax bracket and so gov’t gets their 15% off the top!!

Fugg Uncle Sam, Al Gore, and BRANDON!

Considering the level of inflation, This means absolutely nothing.

United Steelworkers Local 8888 at Newport News Shipbuilding... employ a huge number of people here.

A good friend told me on Saturday that they just installed a soft serve ice cream machine in the Officer's Lounge.

$360k... and the USN didn't even blink when they authorized.

Not sure if just vanilla... or rainbow...

I will ask.

Nope...........never

If they want to be absolutely woke it’ll be Rainbow Sherbet and Chocolate Vanilla Swirl.

We should know Thursday what the SS COLA will amount to.

Not much talk about Medicare costs.

^ ^ ^

Welfare Queen.

Cleveland FED Chairman says no progress has been made on inflation to date and we’ll need much higher interest rates.

Barrons, WSJ

Been having my SS check direct deposited into it's own savings account. Hopefully there'll be enough in there to buy me a new truck 2024.

I think the inflation rate JUST LAST MONTH was 8.5% 🤬

August was 8.3% and September is quoted as the 8.5% that you mentioned.

Good for COLA and SS recipients in a way but bad for the market.

Still no mention of Medicare costs.

Ain’t a bad plan.

65 million people collecting SS, how many of us are left paying into SS,,,,,

The supposed intent of immigration, maybe? More paying into the system.

Democrats have said this. Republ Haven’t argued otherwise.

You’re right about the numbers of payers versus the numbers of recipients.

COLA formally announced to be a 8.7% increase in monthly payments to Social Security recipients.

WSJ, WAPO

Medicare Part B payments to decrease by $5.20 per month.

CNN

The reduction in monthly costs of Medicare Part B is labeled as a “once in a retirement lifetime event “.

CNN, WSJ

All $5.20 worth.

8.7%= $391.70 for the Homie..
👍👍👍

Ph ucking A! Now you can splurge get 3 packs of smokes and 6 pack of strawberry Fanta!

All them ph ucks that took the redux at 15yrs are crying in their oatmeal. I told them you don’t get the annual cola adjustments. You get a 1 time catch up at thd agr of 62 I think. Nope in one ear out the other. Get their 22,500 after taxes be broke a week later.

Maybe I missing something but then I am a little slow sometimes
U r talking about ss aren’t you so
8.7% is 391.70 increase in your check? Or the reported cost of living is up 8.7

Army retirement along with Navy/Airforce we get our raised based off cola index. Their were yrs retirees got maybe .5% cola raise. VA disability Is based off cola index as well.

Dumb azz,s...

Concurrent receipt.....
Earned that schit.....
👍👍👍

2yrs 7 months from now.
Start drawing that SS pocket money at age 62.

Then I gotta pay that mandatory Medicare bullschit.
And have 3 medical plans...
WTF???

Didn’t know about those variables all I could come up with was almost 4200 max and that was with 35 years max taxable income and 70Yr old retirement and from your numbers I saw bout 4500 but still not enough to keep up with col anyhow at that rate wife and I should get bout 600
Good to know and we should all push for veterans to get everything they need especially if they are messed up in any way
Thanks to each one

I was just a E7
Their are some retired 0 types on here I think up to 05,s and 06,s that are pretty happy to get a good cola raise also.


Schitty circumstances for the nation cola is this high though.
But I bet the overwhelming majority of us mil retired types would rather have our buying power for our dollars back under President Trump in lieu of this cola raise being this much and the bullschit from this puppet administration that brought it about.




But at least we dont have mean tweets anymore...

Honk for Joey all you morons who voted for him and turn a blind eye to the election fraud that went along with it.

Fuuuuuuuuuk you......

Uh huh....

NGAF what you have to say.

Cause more than likely you are a newly hatched sockpuppet in its cred building stage.
Either a maser poo one or a OP one.
Among all the other ones floating around here.

Why I posted what I did intially to see what I could catch doing a little fishing with some stink bait.
And you went and did some math figuring too...
🤣🤣🤣

Gawd...
I'm such a Dik!!!👍👍👍

Yep, not taking redux was a great decision. My buddy took it thinking he’d go 24 years and he was mandatory retired at 22 years. Now he’s all about Dave Ramsey and telling others what to do, but not doing it himself.

I wasnt around for this redux stuff.
But know it was a plan to ensnare fools from reading about it.

Seen alot of failure to launch and complacent stagnant types get paid in the early 90,s to get out though.
Kinda a slap in the face of guys just doing say a 2 3 or 4 yr enlistment and getting the basic benefits of being a vet versus the packages and compensation they was giving 8 yr e4,s and 11yr e4p,s to get out. IIRC.
Ect ect ect thru other pay grades e and o alike.
E4,s with 8yrs in getting paid to get out,
Getting 2 yr post privledge ID cards
Pref hiring in .gov jobs above catagory of honorable discharged vets .

O,s
Riffed 2nd look primary zone 03,s getting same schit.
Then joining NG or reserve making 05 06 eventually.
And working GS jobs on post.


All rewarding failure....

Your fat and fail pt test on purpose.
And you knowing would get paid.
Your stagnant as a e5 with 13 yrs in
Knowing your gonna get paid.
Alot of em took lump sum versus the 20 yr pay off thing back then.

I seen alot of e5,s take that schit 92 94 era
some of in the army longer than some of us E6,s in the army at the time by 5 to 7 yrs doing nothing to get themselves promoted.
SMH....


Seen alot of e6,s get qmp,d also that thought they was "safe" 94 95 era with avg or below avg service records also.

Geuss DOD went through a mini qmp 4 or 5 yrs ago also????

Oh my.....
Did another Masar Poo sockpuppet account just get restricted somehow???

Or is it you dont have enough post to send or receive pm,s yet??

Cardonas are you punching yourself in the balls repeatedly right now??.

Got the touch of death.
LOL

Hmmmm..

Just randomly went on the member list and checked some posters with 1 or 2 post.

They didnt have that blurb on their schit when I checked to see if I could send a PM.

Twas not me....
My best geuss is someone is nuking em by IP somehow, knowing I draw sockpuppets in with stinkbait.
Our little Masar poo cant resist stinkbait...
🤣🤣😄

That's my best geuss.

Funny as hell if you ask me.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Must be driving him nuts all he can run is Slavek now.

🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤣🤣🤣

Redux picked up steam around 2000, then the war in Iraq and the Stan guys were doing it to get it all tax free. 30k go home on r&r take family on expensive ass trip come back broke. Then the word got out if you get medically retired and get 100% rating the redux you took at 15yrs no longer applied to you. They chit canned the high 3 retirement in 2018 time frame so redux went out the window. It’s now called blended retirement. Soldiers that were already in less than 10yrs had until 2019 I think January to either opt into high 3 or blended retirement. I told all of them opt into high 3 blended retirement sucks.

White House Chief Of Staff blasted for his comments bragging on the Social Security COLA increase because of inflation.

Fox News

So that also has alot to do with schit Bryds playing the PTSD 100% game if ya think about it in ways.
That is a insight I never really thought of.
I do remember those bonus payments now that you bring it up in ratio to accepting a lower retirement plan.
The null and void of it via the 100% rating explains alot of things in many ways.

That is good info on how these turds play the system at times.
Not all ..
But a good gawddammed large % of em.
Espeically around here.

My oldest daughter has the high 3.
Pretty financially aware.
Middle daughter was also.
But she got out and went 3 letter.

Don’t be picking on Dickholes

He wants you to think he is from Wyoming and stuff. Ya know…tourons and Zero veterans awareness.
Pretending to be the little boy all growed up that yelled SHANE !!!
That’s the true campfire fantasy that dreams are made of.

I got a "don't spend it all in one place" bump of 2%.

I can't help it man...
I'm bored as schitt.
You know I'm kinda burnt out by the time I start hunting with you during TN ml from hunting on post for almost 6 weeks straight.
That schit just changed after 3 fuuuking decades..
Cut 6 weeks off the entire SG ML A season and give that schit to archery hunters solely....


Looking at going fall turkey hunting for the 1st time ever if a area is open for SG this weekend.
That's how stir crazy and bored I am man.

And if D bags on here suffer the effects of me not being in the woods from it.
Suuuks to be them...

🤣🤣🤣

Bazinga we have a winner, I know of at least two that claimed ptsd got 100%, they also took redux after their 15yr mark. But I can’t hate they played the system. With redux you had up until your 19yr mark to take it.. with your BASD the rules were different in 1988 they changed a lot of things. Believe it or not still had Vietnam vets as late as 2000 and they had different rules. We had a CSM that was in nam this dude was old school. I remember in bn formation he said all you dick slappers stop writing graffiti on the motor pool bathroom walls. Ph uck man different time for sure lol..

Help me out on that, your teamster retiree health became a medicare supplement when you turned 65, right..you then have to pay for that?
I retired at 62, and my retiree health for both my wife and I is paid 100%, we have no co-pay so far..will that change when it becomes a supplement to medicare?

If I had joined right out of high school in 81 instead of mid 83
I would have fell under the high 1 final pay thing plan. IIRC.

Fell under the high 3 36 month avg calc instead.

Fugking commie bastard.