SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK HIKE TO BE SMALLER

The cost of living increase for Social Security recipients will be only 2.3% for 2008, the smallest increase in four years. Of course, the problem with this is that people on fixed incomes can't keep up with the increases in all of the fixed expenses that they have. Utilities, health insurance, etc. will all go up more than this. Today I got a notification that my garbage bill is going up $12.00 a month and my health insurance is going up $13.00 a month. You can be sure that electric, water and sewage will also go up.