“On my watch, for the first time in 10 years, seniors are getting an increase in their Social Security checks.”
What PolitiFact found
Social Security recipients have received increases in their checks in the form of inflation adjustments for nine of the past 10 years. The adjustments are based on a key inflation measure, as mandated by a 1972 law.
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In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 1 November 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 November 2022, 1 day later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/11/01/remarks-by-president…
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