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

During that time, Social Security retirement benefits have also experienced a change. In 2005, the average monthly Social ...

The monthly CPI indicator rose 2.5% in the 12 months to December. The top contributors to the annual movement were Food and non-alcoholic beverages (+2.7%), Alcohol and tobacco (+5.8%), and Housing ...

The Quebec government is planning to table a bill on Thursday to define a new integration ... noting that Quebec is "building a new social contract." Asked to explain how he wants immigrants to ...

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The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) is currently undertaking a rebasing exercise for Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Consumer Price Index (CPI). This initiative is aimed at ...

The Social Security Fairness Act repeals two provisions that will give qualifying individuals more money and potential back payments. Here's what you should know. Blake has over a decade of ...

and the specific version used to compute the Social Security COLA is the CPI-W, which is the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers. As the name implies, this measures ...

Social Security recipients are now seeing the 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) reflected in their monthly benefit payments. This is intended to help seniors and other Social Security recipients ...

The good news is that there are several legislative efforts underway to replace the CPI-W with the CPI ... but it could be on the table when it comes to future Social Security reforms.

If the average CPI-W reading from the third quarter of the current year is higher than the comparable period of the prior year, inflation has occurred and Social Security checks are poised to climb.