{"id":38,"date":"2009-10-28T16:10:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T16:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goldenmaturity.com\/in-a-time-when-its-hard-to-make-ends-meet-our-seniors-are-short-changed\/"},"modified":"2009-10-28T16:10:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T16:10:35","slug":"in-a-time-when-its-hard-to-make-ends-meet-our-seniors-are-short-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goldenmaturity.com\/senior-assisted-living-places\/in-a-time-when-its-hard-to-make-ends-meet-our-seniors-are-short-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"In a time when its hard to make ends meet our seniors are short changed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find it really scary that people who live on a fixed income are going to have less to make ends<br \/>\nmeet next year.&#0160; According to the press release consumer prices are down, so Social<br \/>\nSecurity and Supplemental Security Income benefits for more than 57 million Americans will not<br \/>\nautomatically increase in 2010.&#0160; This according to the press release is the first time since<br \/>\n1975 that a Cost of Living Adjustment, will not be automatic.&#0160; The main expenses seniors<br \/>\nhave are housing, food and medical.&#0160; I know I am paying way more on utilities, never<br \/>\nmind the cost of food.&#0160; O.K. gas prices are down from a year or so ago, however all those<br \/>\nfood prices that increased due to fuel costs have&#0160;not come back down where I<br \/>\nshop.&#0160; Please see the press release I have attached. <span class=\"asset asset-generic\nat-xid-6a0120a4ca69f4970b0120a62ba4f8970b\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/goldenmaturity.typepad.com\/files\/cost-of-living-adjustment.pdf\">Download Cost of<br \/>\nliving adjustment<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it really scary that people who live on a fixed income are going to have less to make ends meet next year.&#0160; According to the press release consumer prices are down, so Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits for more than 57 million Americans will not automatically increase in 2010.&#0160; This according&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,5,24],"tags":[126,26,92,127],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cost-of-living-adjustment","category-current-affairs","category-social-security","tag-housing-costs","tag-seniors","tag-social-security-2","tag-social-security-income"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenmaturity.com\/senior-assisted-living-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenmaturity.com\/senior-assisted-living-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenmaturity.com\/senior-assisted-living-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenmaturity.com\/senior-assisted-living-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenmaturity.com\/senior-assisted-living-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenmaturity.com\/senior-assisted-living-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenmaturity.com\/senior-assisted-living-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenmaturity.com\/senior-assisted-living-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenmaturity.com\/senior-assisted-living-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}