Teamsters Local 8

COLA History:

Social Security Cost-Of-Living Adjustments

Year	COLA
1975	8.0%
1976	6.4%
1977	5.9%
1978	6.5%
1979	9.9%
1980	14.3%
1981	11.2%
1982	7.4%
1983	3.5%
1984	3.5%
1985	3.1%
1986	1.3%
1987	4.2%
1988	4.0%
1989	4.7%

Year	COLA
1990	5.4%
1991	3.7%
1992	3.0%
1993	2.6%
1994	2.8%
1995	2.6%
1996	2.9%
1997	2.1%
1998	1.3%
1999	^a 2.5%
2000	3.5%
2001	2.6%
2002	1.4%
2003	2.1%
2004	2.7%

Year	COLA
2005	4.1%
2006	3.3%
2007	2.3%

^a The COLA for December 1999 was originally determined as 2.4 percent based on CPIs published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Pursuant to Public Law 106-554, however, this COLA is effectively now 2.5 percent.

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1978	0.5	0.6	0.8	0.9	0.9	1.1	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.9	0.4	0.6
1979	0.9	1.2	1.2	1.1	1.1	1.3	1.2	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.9	1.0
1980	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.1	1.1	1.1	0.1	0.6	1.0	0.8	0.9	0.9
1981	0.7	1.1	0.6	0.7	0.8	0.9	1.2	0.7	1.0	0.2	0.2	0.3
1982	0.3	0.3	-0.2	0.4	1.1	1.2	0.6	0.2	0.1	0.3	-0.2	-0.4
1983	0.1	0.0	0.3	0.6	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.2	0.0	0.0
1984	0.4	0.2	0.0	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.4	1.0	0.6	0.0	-0.1	0.1
1985	0.1	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3
1986	0.3	-0.4	-0.6	-0.3	0.3	0.5	0.0	0.2	0.5	0.0	0.1	0.1
1987	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.2	-0.1
1988	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.7	0.3	0.1	0.2
1989	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.8	0.6	0.2	0.3	0.0	0.3	0.5	0.2	0.2
1990	1.0	0.4	0.6	0.2	0.2	0.6	0.3	0.9	0.9	0.6	0.2	0.0
1991	0.5	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.4	0.1	0.3	0.1
1992	0.1	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.4	0.1	0.0
1993	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.5	0.1	-0.1
1994	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.3	0.1	0.2	-0.1
1995	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.2	0.3	0.3	-0.1	0.0
1996	0.5	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.0
1997	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.0	-0.2
1998	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.0
1999	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.8	0.1	0.0	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.2	0.1	0.0
2000	0.3	0.5	0.8	0.1	0.1	0.6	0.1	-0.1	0.6	0.1	0.2	-0.1
2001	0.6	0.4	0.1	0.5	0.5	0.1	-0.5	0.0	0.6	-0.5	-0.2	-0.5
2002	0.2	0.3	0.6	0.6	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.1	-0.2
2003	0.4	0.8	0.6	-0.3	-0.2	0.1	0.0	0.4	0.4	-0.2	-0.3	-0.2
2004	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.3	0.7	0.3	-0.2	0.1	0.2	0.6	0.2	-0.4
2005	0.2	0.5	0.7	0.8	-0.1	0.1	0.5	0.6	1.5	0.1	-0.9	-0.5
2006	0.8	0.1	0.6	1.0	0.5	0.2	0.3	0.2	-0.6	-0.7	-0.1	0.2
2007	0.2	0.5	1.0	0.8	0.8	0.1	-0.1	-0.2	0.3	0.2	0.8	-0.1