Next year seniors won’t see an increase in their monthly Social Security checks. The increase, which is determined by cost of living up to June of the previous year, was determined to not be necessary by the government.

A lot of people depend on these checks, and as well depend on Medicare. Currently Medicare has a co-pay on prescription drugs that is $5/$10 depending on the drug. Next year that co-pay is going up to $6/$10.

Now I know a lot of people might say “well that’s only a buck”, but we need to keep in mind the number of prescription drugs a lot of seniors take. Having 20 different drugs isn’t at all uncommon. Also a lot of those people depend on every dollar they get from their Social Security checks, so seniors will actually have less in their pocket each month next year because of the government.

You would think common sense would prevail and someone would say “if we aren’t increasing cost of living then we can’t increase the cost of medicine”, but that would require someone actually thinking inside our government. That’s something that really never happens.