[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR404.273]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
               CHAPTER III--SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 404_FEDERAL OLD-AGE, SURVIVORS AND DISABILITY INSURANCE (1950	 )
--Table of Contents
 
              Subpart C_Computing Primary Insurance Amounts
 
Sec. 404.273  When automatic cost-of-living increases are to be made.

    We make automatic cost-of-living increases if the applicable index, 
either the CPI or the AWI, rises by 3.0 percent or more over a specified 
measuring period (see the rules in Sec. 404.274). If the cost-of-living 
increase is to be based on an increase of 3.0 percent or more in the 
CPI, the increase becomes effective in December of the year in which the 
measuring period ends. If the increase is to be based on an increase of 
3.0 percent or more in the AWI, the increase becomes effective in 
December of the year after the year in which the measuring period ends.

[51 FR 12603, Apr. 14, 1986]