Social Security benefits will arguably lose buying power next year because the 2.5% COLA understates inflation.

The most direct and obvious effect of the new COLA is the increase in monthly benefits. If your monthly Social Security ...

The Social Security Administration will set its 2025 cost-of-living adjustment within days. Here's what the experts say.

2021: 1.3% 2022: 5.9% 2023: 8.7% 2024: 3.2% Benefits can stay static, though it's rare: Since being instituted in 1975, the COLA has only been 0% in 2009, 2010 and 2015. The Social Security ...

Type of Beneficiary Social Security beneficiaries may find the 2025 COLA forecast disappointing, especially when payments ...

That is also higher than the COLA for 2022, which was already high at 5.9%. According to Social Security, benefits will increase on average by more than $140 per month starting with payments being ...

Although Social Security's annual adjustment is mathematically fair, the procedure still arguably leaves retirees at a ...

Workers with disabilities and survivor beneficiaries will receive a 2.5% increase to their monthly checks, as well. For the ...

A look at Social Security's latest on cost of living increases and why some will get an extra check or two in November.

Inflation has cooled substantially since peaking in June 2022, but elevated prices ... which means Social Security benefits will get a 2.5% COLA in 2025. That means the average retired worker ...