Social Security COLAs are tied directly to inflation. Therefore, when one goes down, it indicates that the other is down, too ...

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The actual cost-of-living adjustment for 2025 for Social Security benefits will be announced in mid-October. Early estimates ...

Oct. 10 is when September's CPI-W reading is scheduled to be released. Once that happens, the SSA should be able to announce ...

The next cost-of-living increase for Social Security recipients — which was already projected to be the lowest in years — is ...

The COLA has been up and down over the last few years as it was 3.2% in 2023, 8.7% in 2022, 5.9% in 2021 and 1.3% in 2020.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) just released the second of three data points that will determine how much more retirees ...

While the official COLA will be announced next month, experts following inflation trends month to month can make fairly ...

The Social Security Fairness Act was proposed to reverse the rules surrounding the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and ...

Data source: Social Security Administration. You see that they can get quite high or be quite low. The average COLA over the ...

Social Security's 2025 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) could be the smallest raise for retired workers in four years.

Social Security recipients received a 3.2% COLA in 2024, a significant decrease from the 8.7% COLA in 2023, which was the ...