As the costs of goods continues to increase nationwide, Social Security benefit adjustments aren't expected to keep up.

Mary Johnson, an independent Social Security analyst, said: "COLA doesn't keep pace with real inflation. The year-over-year ...

Cost-of-living adjustments have been something of a mixed bag for retirees over the last 16 years. The 2010s were a period of ...

The Federal Reserve has been on a mission to cool inflation. To that end, it raised interest rates nearly a dozen times in ...

Over the last 20 years, the cost-of-living adjustment has averaged 2.6%, according to the Senior Citizens League.

For an overwhelming majority of retired workers, Social Security is more than ... program's 52 million retired workers than the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) reveal.

When the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced last October that seniors would be getting a 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), a lot of older Americans weren't happy.

The early forecast for the 2026 COLA is already out, and seniors could be in for an even smaller raise in 2026. The Senior ...

The Social Security Administration stated more than 72.5 million Americans will benefit from the 2.5% COLA increase in 2025.

The budget recommendations for the following years are also substantially lower than the 21 percent called for from 2025 to 2026.