Social Security benefit increase for 2009

There was a 5.8 percent Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) which Social Security beneficiaries will receive in January 2009. See this for details : http://www.ssa.gov/pressoffice/pr/2009cola-pr.htm

Here is information on Medicare changes for 2009 : http://questions.medicare.gov/cgi-bin/medicare.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.p...