City officials ignored her warnings and approved the benefit increases and the underpayments to the account, then glossed over them in bond issues last year.

They vote for tax cuts, they vote for benefit increases, and they often don't vote at all.

The benefit increase no longer applies when you reach age 70, even if you continue to delay taking benefits.

The Government said it would aid the old and needy, pledging average benefit increases of 52 percent.

If I may be predictable for a moment, I should like to welcome the benefit increases.

After a series of benefit increases, the poverty rate among the elderly dropped from 29 percent in 1965 to just 13 percent last year.

The full annual cost of benefit increases will exceed $20 million and will maintain essential purchasing power for over 330,000 SSI recipients.

PBGC guarantees the larger of 20% of the benefit increase or $20 per month for each full year the benefit increase was in effect.

Mr. Bush cast the policy change he embraced as slowing the growth of future benefit increases.

The order may specify whether, and to what extent, an alternate payee is to receive such subsidies or future benefit increases.