Tens of millions of Americans rely on Social Security benefits for a substantial portion of their retirement income. Not only ...

The Social Security program undergoes a series of revisions each year to ensure benefit payments keep pace with inflation and ...

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

By now, all seniors on Social Security should have gotten their first checks for 2025. With the latest 2.5% cost-of-living ...

Social Security benefits received a 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2025, but for many retirees, this is not enough ...

The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment officially goes into effect in December of each year -- so technically speaking ...

If you receive Social Security benefits, your payments are getting bigger this year. That’s because you’re getting a Cost of ...

The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W): This index is used to determine the annual cost of living adjustments to Social Security benefits and to adjust ...

tied to a subset of the Consumer Price Index known as the CPI-W, which tracks the price of goods and services across the economy. Here is how it works: The CPI-W from the third quarter of the ...