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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Data from TSCL’s 2024 Senior Survey shows 62% of older Americans worry their retirement income won’t even cover essentials ...

That increased the average retiree benefit by $59 a month. COLA is meant to help Social Security recipients keep pace with ...

For most retirees, lower costs overall will have a greater impact than a slightly larger COLA. Inflation has slowed substantially over the past couple of years, but historically, Social Security ...

While the smaller COLA is due to the normalization of annual inflation rates, many beneficiaries are concerned. “Our research shows that 67 percent of seniors depend on Social Security for more ...

The COLA formula is based on third-quarter inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). Nearly 68 million Social Security beneficiaries ...

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.

Despite how small the latest COLA is, there are ways that cash-strapped retirees can put that extra money to work. Since they are pegged to inflation, Social Security COLAs don’t occur every ...

Nearly 72.88 million Americans rely on Social Security for monthly income. The vast majority, about 65.5 million, collect ...