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H.R. 4869 (99th): A bill to provide that cost-of-living adjustments of certain Federal benefit programs shall be treated the same as similar adjustments in social security benefits.

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The summary below was written by the Congressional Research Service, which is a nonpartisan division of the Library of Congress, and was published on May 21, 1986.


Requires that changes in Federal budget outlays after FY 1985 due to cost-of-living adjustments for the following programs be treated the same as similar adjustments under title II of the Social Security Act (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance): (1) black lung benefits; (2) Central Intelligence Agency retirement and disability system; (3) civil service retirement and disability system; (4) Comptroller General retirement system; (5) foreign service retirement and disability system; (6) judicial survivors' annuities system; (7) longshoremen's and harbor workers' compensation system; (8) military retirement system; (9) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration retirement system; (10) pensions for former Presidents; (11) railroad retirement; (12) Coast Guard retirement system; (13) Public Health Service commissioned officers retirement system; (14) disabled coal miners' benefits; and (15) Tax Court judges survivors' retirement system.