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The president has proposed sending a $250 check to every Social Security recipient, which sounds pretty good at first.
Next year, they are scheduled to receive no cost-of-living increase in their Social Security benefits.
Yet that is largely because they received an artificially high 5.8 percent increase this year. For this reason and others, economists are generally recoiling at the proposal.