BERKELEY-Berkeley Township is an Ocean County community, like many others with a large senior citizen population and Mayor Carmen Amato and the Berkeley Township municipal council have sounded off against the latest slap in the face to America’s seniors by the Obama administration.
For the third time during Obama’s administration the Social Security Administration has announced there will be no cost of living adjustment to senior citizens.
NPR reported:
“Low gasoline prices helped keep inflation in check this year. And that means no cost of living increase for some 65 million Americans who receive Social Security benefits. This is only the third time that’s happened since 1975, when automatic inflation adjustments began