Retired-worker benefits can hit a psychologically important level next year, but seniors are still likely to get the short ...

Social Security's cost-of-living adjustment is the mechanism ... the COLA calculation. If the average CPI-W reading from the third quarter of the current year is higher than the comparable period ...

The Senior Citizens League (TSCL), a nonpartisan senior group, recently released their monthly COLA estimate, predicting that it would moderate to 2.1% in 2026.

In legislative developments, Representative Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, reintroduced a bill last week aimed at ...

Thankfully, Social Security benefits are raised automatically nearly every year to help them compensate for inflation. Without those cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs), recipients would ...

While the actual 2026 Social Security cost-of-living increase for retired workers won’t be announced until October, the ...

Over 50 million Americans claimed Social Security benefits as of December 2023, with an average monthly check of $1,905.31.

Starting in January, Social Security recipients saw a 2.5% increase in their monthly payments as the annual cost of living ...

The cost-of-living adjustment is, effectively, the mechanism used by the Social Security Administration ... of the current year is higher than the average CPI-W reading from the comparable ...

Each year's Social Security COLA is based on the inflation data from the prior year's third quarter. So the 2.5% COLA seniors ...