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Feeling the Impact of Inflation: 6.2% COLA (So Far) for 2009

FERS retirees

Retired
DOD
Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:12 AM

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How does the cola increase apply to FERS retirees?

Re: FERS retirees

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FedSmith.com
Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:15 AM
You can search our entire site for articles on any topic such as the one you are asking about. One article that discusses this topic is at: http://www.fedsmith.com/article/1256/

Re: FERS retirees

retired
usfs
Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:33 AM
It effects your SS component as SS recipiants get the COLA.

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Retired
USPS
Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:47 AM
I just read the quoted article re: cola for Fers retirees. It is a lousy article and over answers the question. Could somebody tell us in plain English?

COLA

Retired Unit Coordinator
Dept. of Veteramn Affairs
Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:22 AM

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I sure hope we get the amount projected because we as retirees need it; especially those of us who are under the GPO plan where our annuity is reduced.

Thanks for the encouragement.

COLA

Emergency Management Specialist
DOE
Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:43 AM

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I remember getting a whopping increase from the Carter administration.

Federal wages are always the political football. Even if this COLA is approved we will still be behind private industry parity.

Re: COLA

amm
ssa
Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:49 PM
Try to remember what inflation was running that year we got the 14.3% cola, I believe it was 14.3% as well. So kindly explain where the improvement was? All we did was keep up with inflation and we barely did it then. Don't think Carter was that wonderful. Go back to the 70's historic charts on inflation and you may be surprised it wasn't such a boon.

Feeling the impact of inflation

Environmental Prot. Spec.
USEPA
Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:48 AM

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First of all let me say thank you so very much Mr Bush for further eroding my pay check with this war generated, budget deficited, inflation. However what truly befuddles me is the survey of the 1500 + readers who overwhelmingly have chosen to contiue down this path of economic destruction by wanting to put a man in the white house who at best will continue a war and economic policies of the previous 8yrs that have put us in this predicament in the first place. Yes Barack Hussein Obama is inexperienced but he was not a C student, "joe" fraternity type. Mr McCain fought in a very unpoplar war and from all accounts served his country admirablely. He wasnt last in his class at annapolis, but by his own words he wasn;t a scholar. Being a POW does not mean your will be a great president.

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Retired
DoD Procurement
Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:01 AM
Dear Environ.Prot.Spec: Concerning your comment, Its amazing to see such a superficial understanding of Sen. McCane. You are clearly led by the pied piper, Obama, and all the radical rhetoric he espouses. Sen. McCain is the "real" instrument of change for the direction of the US government. His "over-" qualification to become President is not based upon his POW experience as you imagine per the pied piper. You shall be delighted when President McCain demonstrates he is a politician cut from a different cloth and leads us into a much brighter future than Sen. Obama can even imagine possible.

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Worker
DoD
Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:14 PM
You forgot to mention that in addition to being inexperienced, Obama was a bong smoking, coke snorting dude in his younger years. Although being a POW and being tortured for several years isn't an automatic qualifier for President, it sure as hell tells alot about the character of the man. Additionally, before you lay everything wrong in this world at Bush's feet, take a moment and actually think about how this country governs itself and things get accomplished......Congress has a bigger impact on what happens then the President.

Re: Feeling the impact of inflation

INSPECT0R
MSHA
Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:32 PM
Why don't you give it a rest? Bush is not the blame for everything. It is so easy to just sit back and point fingers. Why don't you start a campaign to remove everyone from Washington and start over? Then we will see some accountability.

Re: Feeling the impact of inflation

Accountant, retired
Dept of Energy
Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:03 PM
No republican is an agent of change unless you mean changing backwards to the guilded age of the 1880's. Thier platform hasn't changed since then. "Power to the Industrialist" has been and still is their cry. Which means NO MIDDLE CLASS

Re: Feeling the impact of inflation

Programmer
TSO
Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:58 PM
retired Accountant, that's an entertaining comment. Too bad it's not relevant to today's political climate.

Re: Feeling the impact of inflation

IT Drone
DoD
Fri Aug 22, 2008 8:45 AM
Worker, while extolling the dubious achievements of one candidate, you neglected to mention that the incumbent did those same things in his youth AND is a "recovering" alcoholic. The other major candidate is rumored to have recurring PTSD episodes from his service and has anger issues.

In other words, there are NO perfect people in this world.

salary increase

hr asst
usda
Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:14 AM

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it makes no sense to me, that there should be such a disparity between what active feds get, as opposed to retirees. granted, that this has been a supra-normal year regarding price increases societywide, but the message that this pay disparity sends me is not a positive one. i know that our raises have often not kept up with inflation, but why not peg our increases to all be the same; retirees, military, and civilian sector, and peg it to the inflation rate, AFTER giving us the pay parity with the civilian sector that we have yet to experience?

Feeling the impact of inflation

Retiree
FAA
Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:11 AM

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When I was working, I got within-grade increases, and I even managed to get promoted from time to time. Now, as a retiree, that's all out the window. And 6.2% of my annuity is a lot less, in actual dollars, than 3.2% of what my pay used to be!

Electricity Up 20%

Retired
USPS
Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:06 PM

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This just in from Knoxville Tn., for the southestern US.
Makes this lousy 6.2 raise look sick!

"KNOXVILLE -- Electricity rates will go up 20 percent for residential customers as of Oct. 1.

The Tennessee Valley Authority board this morning approved a 17 percent increase to cover the high costs of coal and gas, plus a 3 percent jump in the base rate that customers pay."

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