COST-OF-LIVING ALLOWANCES
- Section 591.206 - How does OPM establish COLA areas?
- Section 591.207 - Which areas are COLA areas?
- Section 591.208 - How does OPM establish COLA rates?
- Section 591.209 - What is a price index?
- Section 591.210 - What are weights?
- Section 591.211 - What are the categories of consumer expenditures?
- Section 591.212 - How does OPM select survey items?
- Section 591.213 - What prices does OPM collect?
- Section 591.214 - How does OPM collect prices?
- Section 591.215 - Where does OPM collect prices in the COLA and DC areas?
- Section 591.216 - How does OPM combine survey data for the DC area and for COLA areas with multiple survey areas?
- Section 591.217 - In which outlets does OPM collect prices?
- Section 591.218 - How does OPM compute price indexes?
- Section 591.219 - How does OPM compute shelter price indexes?
- Section 591.220 - How does OPM calculate energy utility cost indexes?
- Section 591.221 - How does OPM compute the consumer expenditure weights it uses to combine price indexes?
- Section 591.222 - How does OPM use the expenditure weights to combine price indexes?
- Section 591.223 - When does OPM conduct COLA surveys?
- Section 591.224 - How does OPM adjust price indexes between surveys?
- Section 591.225 - Which CPIs does OPM use?
- Section 591.226 - How does OPM apply the CPIs?
- Section 591.227 - What adjustment factors does OPM add to the price indexes?
- Section 591.228 - How does OPM convert the price index plus adjustment factor to a COLA rate?
- Section 591.229 - How does OPM inform agencies and employees of COLA rate changes?