# Title II Cost of Living Increases in Primary Insurance Amounts
> **US Social Security Administration** · Final rules. · Published 2004-04-15 · Effective 2004-04-15 · 69 FR 19924
## Document
- **Document number:** 04-8573
- **Category:** ssa-other
- **Agency:** US Social Security Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 69 FR 19924
- **CFR reference:** 20 CFR 404
- **Publication date:** 2004-04-15
- **Effective date:** 2004-04-15
## Abstract

We are revising our rules dealing with automatic cost-of- living increases to primary insurance amounts under title II of the Social Security Act (the Act). The revisions remove the restriction in our previous rules that allowed cost-of-living increases based on rises in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) or the Average Wage Index (AWI) only if either the CPI or AWI increased by 3 percent or more during the prescribed measuring period. The 3-percent restriction was eliminated by legislation enacted in 1986. We are also adding clarifying language that, when rounding an increase in the CPI or AWI, we round five one- hundredths and above to the next higher tenth of a percent.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2004/04/15/04-8573/title-ii-cost-of-living-increases-in-primary-insurance-amounts)
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