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 ...

Social Security recipients are now seeing the 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) reflected in their monthly benefit payments. This is intended to help seniors and other Social Security ...

examines inflation data and adjusts Social Security benefits accordingly. In short, the annual cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, is designed to help retirees keep up with the rising cost of ...

CPI-W inflation has reaccelerated in every month since the third quarter ended, meaning the 2025 COLA was based on artificially low readings. The 2.5% COLA applied to Social Security in 2025 ...

While a lot can change in the months to come, Social Security's 2026 COLA offers both good and bad news for retirees. On one hand, the prospect of "cooling inflation" isn't a bad thing.

The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, added 2.5% to Social Security benefits in 2025. However, as Certified Financial Planner® Matt Frankel explains in this video, this might not be ...

Thanks to COLAs, benefits are adjusted each year to account for inflation so that seniors don't automatically lose out on buying power over time. In 2025, Social Security's COLA came to 2.5% ...

For instance, CPI-W inflation increased 2.5% in the third quarter last year, so Social Security payments increased 2.5% this year. That is the smallest COLA since 2021. Unfortunately, Labor ...

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.