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What to do with my increase in Social Security?

Hurray for Social Security! After three or four years without an inflation (COLA) raise, we finally got a raise this year.

My wife and I will share the $7 take-home increase we received. Trying to figure out all the ways to use it. Seems like it should have been a bit more, but what the heck!

This story was originally published January 6, 2018 at 3:52 PM with the headline "What to do with my increase in Social Security?."

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