‘I’m down to eating ramen’: Social Security benefits aren’t keeping up with inflation‘I’m down to eating ramen’: Social Security benefits aren’t keeping up with inflation 

Until last year, Janet Albrecht could afford to eat roast beef sandwiches or tuna salad for lunch. But the widowed 78-year-old now has to skimp on her meals because her Social Security benefits haven’t kept up with the rising costs for food, housing and health care in recent years.