Show Answers On Price Freeze This column of questions and answers on the Wage and Price Freeze is provided by the local office of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and is published as a public The column answers questions most frequently asked about the Wage and Price Freeze announced 15 by President Q I'LL be getting out of the Army in two weeks and returning to my old Can I receive the pay increases I would have gotten if I had in the A Veterans returning to their pre-military employment during the freeze are entitled to all the increases they would have received had they not served in the Employees are hired at the pay scale in existence during the base period of July 16 to Q IS THE Internal Revenue Service the only place where you can get information on the wage-price A Information on the freeze and assistance with complaints is provided at the 10 Service Centers of the Office of Emergency and the more than 2800 office of the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation as well as Internal Revenue Service Local Service and Centers throughout the Q ARE welfare payments covered by the A Welfare payments are not covered by the They are not payments for services rendered are not Q I'M A During the summer I received my master's degree as a I was to receive a pay increment this Can I still get A Pay increments for teachers who receive their master's and other scheduled pay raises dependent upon employees completing certain educational may be paid during the because these actions are bona fide The must be able to certify that such an agreement was in If the effective date of the teacher's contract is after the increment must be no more than the amount that was granted last Q CAN MY city government increase rates for gas and A State or local governments may not increase charges or fees for government-provided state and local tax and fees for licenses or legal such as traffic are not Q CAN merchants pass on to consumers the cost of an increase in state or local A This is not permitted during the Q WHAT ARE some of the food products not subject to the A Raw agricultural such as fresh fruit and fresh fish and and other products that retain the same physical form they possessed when they left the farm are not covered by the All other agricultural and food such as frozen slaughtered would be considered processed and subject to the Q THE lease on my apartment is about to I know my landlord has raised rents for new tenants in similar Can he now raise my A If a tenant's lease his rent may not be raised to the level being paid by new tenants in similar |