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

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

But based on recent data, it's clear that 2025's Social Security COLA is already failing to keep up with inflation. If things don't turn around, many retirees could end up struggl ...

It has been my custom for most of the past 27 years to write a year-end column that summarizes the Social Security updates scheduled to take place the following year. I already discussed some of ...

The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for 2025 is the lowest since the post-Covid inflation spike. Yet retirees still ...

Nearly 73 million benefits are paid out by the Social Security Administration each month to program participants, the vast ...

The largest COLA increase ever came in July 1980, when the SSA raised benefits by 14.3% in response to soaring inflation. The higher Social Security and federal SSI payments will appear no later ...

The COLA is made annually and is meant to protect people's Social Security benefits from being eroded by inflation. The Social Security Administration typically announces the official COLA ...

The COLA is not a raise, but an adjustment to help the roughly 67 million Social Security beneficiaries keep up with inflation. "Inflation slowing down doesn't mean that seniors are catching up.

Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustment is expected to shrink in 2026 and could be the lowest increase seen in a decade. According to a forecast by the Senior Citizens League, the COLA could ...