{"id":188,"date":"2014-10-30T11:30:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T15:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/?p=188"},"modified":"2014-10-29T19:24:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T23:24:05","slug":"using-your-20-a-month-cola-increase-to-make-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/using-your-20-a-month-cola-increase-to-make-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Using your $20-a-month COLA increase to make a difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The reaction by a lot of retirees last week to the news that their Social Security checks will rise next year by an average of $20 per month amounted to \u201cThanks for nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The question is whether they can turn that nothing into something.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Read Chuck Jaffe\u2019s suggestion of how to make a little go a long way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/how-to-make-your-20-a-month-cola-increase-make-a-difference-2014-10-27\">http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/how-to-make-your-20-a-month-cola-increase-make-a-difference-2014-10-27<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How much of a percentage increase in COLA would you like to see? Have you noticed or paid much attention to this retirement need-to-know in the past? Share your feedback. We\u2019d love to hear from you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reaction by a lot of retirees last week to the news that their Social Security checks will rise next year by an average of $20 per month amounted to \u201cThanks for nothing.\u201d The question is whether they can turn that nothing into something. Read Chuck Jaffe\u2019s suggestion of how to make a little go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4,55,56,6],"tags":[58,31,30,33,32,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}