For example, to ensure that no one who has worked for 30 or more years will live in poverty in old age, Social Security needs a higher minimum benefit for lower-income workers, with more affluent seniors seeing less growth in benefits over time. Adopting the chained consumer-price index for federal benefit calculations would ensure that benefits more accurately represent inflation, while slowing the rate of benefit growth for individuals.
比如，为了确保所有工作30年或以上的人都不会在晚年致贫，社会安全需要提高低收入工人的最低福利，而较丰裕的年长者，其长期福利的增加幅度将会更少。用消费物价指数来计算联邦福利能确保福利更加准确地体现通胀，同时降低个人福利增长率。