E very year, Social Security benefits undergo a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to align with inflation rates. This ...

Following a decade of anemic cost-of-living adjustments, a historic increase in the U.S. money supply sent the prevailing ...

The Senior Citizens League currently projects a 2026 COLA of 2.2%, well below this year's increase of 2.5%. However, the Federal Reserve recently raised its inflation outlook for the year.

Seniors will get a significant bump in their Social Security benefits in 2022. The Social Security ... This is the largest COLA increase since 1982, when benefits surged 7.4%.

The Social Security annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2025 is 2.5%, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced Thursday. This is the smallest increase since 2020, as expected ...

If the bill passes, it would require STRS to give the increases. But the STRS board has been looking at a COLA increase since last June, months before Fedor’s bill was introduced. “The board ...

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) was up 2.4 percent from a year earlier, the smallest 12-month increase ... SS recipients will be able to pocket the difference throughout the year. The annual SS ...

For example, if the COLA is 5%, a retiree who receives $1,000 a month in benefits will have a $50 increase. In 2022, price hikes have been the largest that consumers have experienced in 40 years.

GETTY Every year, the COLA is based on the average CPI-W in the third quarter of the current year and the average CPI-W in the same period of the previous year. If there is an increase ...

Most retirees have probably gotten used to their Social Security benefits increase for 2025 by now. The latest cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) of 2.5% began hitting benefit checks in January.