The nonpartisan advocacy group The Senior Citizens League predicts the 2026 COLA will be 2.1%, based on data from the Bureau ...

Tens of millions of Americans rely on Social Security benefits for a substantial portion of their retirement income. Not only ...

This is intended to help seniors and other Social Security recipients keep up with inflation and is based on Consumer Price ...

Social Security benefits received a 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2025, but for many retirees, this is not enough ...

Benefits increased by 2.5%, beginning with the December 2024 payment ... version used to compute the Social Security COLA is the CPI-W, which is the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners ...

In late 2024, inflation was on the rise, with the CPI-W increasing to 2.8% by December. The adjustment didn't reflect this jump because Social Security calculates the COLA based on earlier data.

A 2.5% Social Security cost-of-living adjustment is the lowest increase to benefits since 2021. To increase those checks, ...

An applied Friedmanite, Volcker understood that excess growth of the money supply was the root cause of this ...