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" The Post concludes that Social Security 's annual return is about 3 % above inflation , while the return on personal accounts would be 4.6 % above inflation . The cell values over a 2 - year period have changed from 88 % and are affected by inflation . Workers who opened private accounts would also see their government benefits reduced by one dollar for every dollar invested PLUS INTEREST ( all in caps ) , computed at 3 percentage points above inflation . Moreover , although the minimum wage series depicted in Figure 1 has about 700 observations , the amount of relevant information in this series is effectively the number of times the minimum was increased by a substantial amount , and the increase was not quickly erased by inflation . Settlements above inflation can only be justified where there are specific recruitment and retention problems , or where the increases will be financed by reform and modernisation changes , including efficiency and productivity savings . " And so it has been with inflation . And this freeze will apply for only 1 year , and after that , increases above inflation will be required . In this choice plan , the policyholder had to choose between preserving and taking the same threshold that always existed , the $ 200 threshold , or for a lower premium taking a $ 1500 threshold indexed for inflation so that , as inflation increased the cost of medical care and the like , the threshold would increase . But to do that , we must recognize that growth above inflation in Federal programs is not preordained , that not all spending initiatives were designed to be immortal .