on Homelessness & Poverty v. United States Dep’t of Veterans Affairs, 799 F.Supp. 148, 157 n. 10 (D.D.C.1992) (applying the national CPI-U because the local index was only published every other month, and less often in most other American cities); Ortiz v. Chater, No. 95 CV 3126 ERK, 1997 WL 50217, at *5 (E.D.N.Y. Jan. 30, 1997) (applying the national index and noting that the Second Circuit had not “specified whether a national or local cost-of-living adjustment should be used”). ii. Case Law Applying the Local and Regional Indexes Looking at federal case law as a whole, the Court notes that there is contrary authority which applies the local/regional indexes over the national index to determine the cost-of-living adjustment. See Mannino v. West, 12 Vet.App. 242, 243 (Vet.App.1999) (<HOLDING>). The United States Court of Veterans Appeals
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