The Social Security Administration announced last week that its annual cost-of-living adjustment for 2021 will be 1.3 percent in 2021, an increase of about $20 a month for the average recipient.

That did not make Ocean County Freeholder Director Joseph H. Vicari, who also serves as chairman of the Office of Senior Services, very happy. Indeed, it made him “furious.”

“It is outrageous and inconceivable that in this economic emergency our seniors are receiving such a paltry increase,” said Vicari.