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Objective:The purpose of this file is to provide access to the Equable Benefits Database. Specifically, this file contains the COLA policies and actual COLA amounts issued by plans for Fiscal 2023
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Organization:The data in this file are organized in two tabs described below.
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COLA Actuals 2023: This tab contains a subset of the benefit data as it pertains to plan cost of living adjustments (COLAs). In addition to detailing the COLA rules and policies, this tab contains the actual COLAs issued by plans for fiscal year 2023 (either as documented by the plans or calculated using current measures of inflation/plan performance and applying the COLA rules) for all currently active tiers and all legacy tiers for plans in California, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Texas (including the municipally administered plans in those states).
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Variable Descriptions: This tab contains a list of the variables contained in the database, broken out for each tab, and descriptions of what are recorded in each variable.
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Note that no graphics are contained in this file.
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Data Sources:These finance data were drawn from the following sources:
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1)COLA Actuals: All data pertaining to the COLAs issued to plan members are compiled using one of three methods: 1) the plan publishes a separate report that states how much the COLA issued for a fiscal year is, 2) the plan details how much the COLA was in a primary plan document (such as an AV or ACFR), 3) we calculate the COLA using the plan provisions outlined in the plan documentation. Note that we provide documentation for the sourcing of COLA values in the COLA_Source column of each tab.
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Scaling:Please reference the Variable Description tab for more details regarding the units of measurement being employed for each variable.
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Questions:For any questions related to the data in this file, please contact jon@equable.org
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Additional Data:For additional data (or to access the raw data used to compile the figures reported in this file), please send an inquiry to either anthony@equable.org or jon@equable.org
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Last Updated:August 20, 2024
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