The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) applied to Social Security payments in any given year is based on CPI-W inflation from ...

The average Social Security payment will rise by more than $50 per month starting in January, thanks to the federal ...

It’s not uncommon for seniors on Social Security to collect those benefits for two decades or longer. But in that long a time ...

Key Takeaways For 2026, the Senior Citizens League predicts a smaller cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security benefits ...

As inflation begins to cool, the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2025 has been set at 2.5%. This increase, although modest compared to the previous years, is a crucial lifeline ...

Many retirees look forward to Social Security's annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), which for 2025 is 2.5%. The COLA technically takes effect in December, with beneficiaries seeing updated ...

Recipients of Social Security received an increase in benefits in 2025, as they do every year. However, new economic data and ...

The full retirement age for Social Security is set to increase in 2025, with the age for new retirees to claim and receive their full benefit rising to 66 years and 10 months.

back in 2022, the CPI-W average was a whopping 8.7% higher than the year before, reflecting record-high inflation rates. While that COLA substantially increased the average Social Security benefit ...

those discrepancies tend to balance out over time because CPI-W inflation in some years falls below the COLA applied to Social Security in the next year. That actually happened with the 2022 and ...