Social Security to rise 2.6 percent next year
The 2.6 percent cost of living increase will lift average monthly Social Security checks for over 50 million beneficiaries. Examples show boosts across categories from individual retired workers to families and widowed or disabled beneficiaries, with specific new payment ranges and increases.
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Larry Massanari
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John Rother
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Social Security increases 2.6 percent in 2002
The 2.6 percent COLA raises the average retiree check by about $22 monthly, reflecting slowed inflation. Medicare premiums rise $4 to $54, effective Jan 1, with 40 million affected. Inflation remains low, though health costs worry many retirees.
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Anthrax Strains From Same Batch surface in multiple cities
Authorities say Florida New York and Washington anthrax strains are indistinguishable and not weaponized. A New York Post employee and a Billions of public figures face exposure as investigations trace tainted letters to Daschle Brokaw and Rather.
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Sverdlovsk anthrax outbreak linked to lab leak in 1979
A 1979 Sverdlovsk anthrax outbreak killed at least 68 people near Military Compound 19. Officials later attributed the disaster to a germ-warfare lab accident, claiming no official confirmation of biological weapons involvement. Details emerged from later investigations and survivor accounts.
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Lazar Karsayev
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Yekaterinburg
Boris Yeltsin
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Soviet Union
Moscow
Karsayev
Lidia Tretyakova
Harvard
Matthew Meselson
Science
Meselson
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