What's more, surveys have shown that Social Security checks are necessary for seniors to make ends meet. A poll from ...

The early projection for Social Security's 2026 COLA is in, and it's looking like ... But over the last four years, COLAs came in at 5.9% in 2022, a four-decade high of 8.7% in 2023, 3.2% in ...

As inflation continues to decline, Social Security recipients will see a modest increase in their benefits for 2025. The Cost ...

For retirees, healthcare expenses are unavoidable and increasingly unaffordable. Fidelity Research says a 65-year-old ...

The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) applied to Social Security payments in any given year is based on CPI-W inflation from the third quarter of the previous year. In that sense, COLAs are a ...

back in 2022, the CPI-W average was a whopping 8.7% higher than the year before, reflecting record-high inflation rates. While that COLA substantially increased the average Social Security benefit ...

The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for 2025 is the lowest since the post-Covid inflation spike. Yet retirees still ...

The Senior Citizens League (TSCL), a nonpartisan senior group, recently released their monthly COLA estimate, predicting that it would moderate to 2.1% in 2026.

The COLA helps beneficiaries keep ... Prices are still rising, but not as steeply as they did in 2022 and 2023. Are you working and collecting Social Security benefits? You're not alone.