California Department of Social Services - State Hearings Division
Notes from the Training Bureau - March 11, 1998

Item 98-03-02C
CDSS ACL 97-78 -- December 15, 1997 (Synopsis): Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) and Qualifying Quarters Earnings

Social Security recipients will receive a 2.1 percent COLA payable in January 1998.

The amount of earnings needed to be credited with a Social Security qualifying quarter in 1998 is $700.