Indexing Social Security benefits to automatically and annually adjust to compensate for the erosion in their value due to inflation was a strategy used by both political parties to garner support from elderly constituents. Everyone realized that indexing would increase benefits but no one predicted that the inflation in the 1970s would lead to ?

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No one predicted that the inflation in the 1970s would lead to the significant increase in the cost ... View the full answer