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

This is intended to help seniors and other Social Security recipients keep up with inflation and is based on Consumer Price ...

The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) applied to Social Security payments in any given year is based on CPI-W inflation from ...

and September in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). These months are crucial for setting the Social Security benefit increase for the upcoming year.