ABC This Week interviews during 2015: on Social Security


Bernie Sanders: Criminal to not have COLA increases for seniors

The Social Security administration said that there would not be a COLA [cost-of-living adjustments] for our seniors and disabled people. That's only the third time in the last 40 years. I think that's absurd.

Prescription drug costs have gone up. Seniors are paying more. We need to change the formula and we've got legislation in to do that, to ascertain what real cost of living is for seniors.

And I am going to fight very hard. You've got millions of seniors trying to get by on $13,000, $14,000 a year making choices between medicine and food. That is criminal. And we've got to change the formula by which COLAs are depended--are created so that seniors get a fair shake.

Source: ABC This Week 2015 interview by Martha Raddatz Oct 18, 2015

  • The above quotations are from ABC This Week interviews during 2015
    (George Stephanopoulous interviewing candidates for 2015 and 2016 races).
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Mayor Mike Bloomberg (I-NYC)
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Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-IN)
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Secy.Julian Castro (D-TX)
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Sen.Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
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Howard Schultz(I-WA)
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