The re- portswerereleasedto drawatten- tion to Teen Driver Safety Week, which runs thr ough Frid ay. His observations are verified by two studies on teen driving thatfounddistr acte d driv ingand ine xper ienc e leadto a majo rityof accidents or close calls. “Wi th everyb ody tryingto mul- ti-task and doing a thousand dif- fer ent thin gs, it’s just not rea l safe”(for inexpe rienceddrivers), Pittsto n Area driver educatio n teac her Jim Blas kie wicz said Tue sday.

Mos t ret ire esrelyon Soci al Se- curity for a majority of their in- come, acco rdi ng to theSocialSe-Ī worl d filledwith distra ctions and heavy use of electronic de- vices can be a teen driver’ s worst enemy. A 3.5 percent in- crease would amount to an addi- tion al$38 a mont h,or abo ut$455 a year. Monthly Social Security pay- ments average $1,082, or about $13,000 a year. Medicare Part B premi- ums for 2012 are expected to be announce d next week, and the trus tee s who ove rse e the pro - gram are projecting an increase. “I think sometimes people forget what senior s’ in- comes are.” Some of the increase in Janu- ary will be lost to higher Medi- car e pre mium s, whi ch are de- ducted from Social Security pay- ments. “Pe ople cer- tain ly fee l lik e the y arefallin g beh ind, andthese are modest -incomefolks to begin with, so every dollar counts, ” Certner said. That was small comf ort to the millions of reti- re es an d di s- ab le d pe op le who have seen ret ire men t ac- counts dwindl e and home val - ues drop during theperiodof ec- ono mic wea k- ness,said David Certner, legisla- tiv e pol icy di - re cto r fo r th e AARP. But there was n o CO L A i n 2010 or 201 1 be- cause inflation was too low. Congre ss adoptedthe measur e inthe 197 0s,and sinc e the n it has res ulte d in annu al ben efit in- crease s avera ging 4.2 percen t.

About 55 million beneficiar ies will find out for sure today whe n a government inflation measure that determines the annual cost- of-living adjustment is released. WA SHING TON - Social Se- curi tyrecipi ent s wil l geta rai sein January - their first increase in benefits since 2009.

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