Re: social security query

[Ellen Frank]

None whatsoever.  In fact, because benefits are indexed
to inflation rather than to wages, relative living standards of 
seniors tends to lag behind the general population.  Many
European countries do, however, index pension benefits
to wages.

                        Ellen

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>I heard Rudolph Penner on US National Public Radio today saying that the 
>social security benefits are indexed to wages. Is there any truth at all
>to 
>this assertion? Isn't it the revenues that are indexed to wages, while
>the 
>benefits are indexed to the CPI?
>
>Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>