Social Security beneficiaries have received annual cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) tied to a subset of the Consumer Price ...

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If you receive Social Security benefits, your payments are getting bigger this year. That’s because you’re getting a Cost of ...

Forget about COLAs for a minute -- because Social Security itself has some big problems. More money is being paid out of its ...

The Senior Citizens League (TSCL), a nonpartisan senior group, recently released their monthly COLA estimate, predicting that ...

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in December, ...

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Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, went into effect recently and was reflected on the payments received in ...

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

The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W): This index is used to determine the annual cost of living adjustments to Social Security benefits and to adjust ...

COLA is tied to the CPI-W, or the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers. For December, the CPI-W was 2.8%, up from 2.6% in November. "While slowing inflation is a good ...