If you receive Social Security retirement benefits, more money should be coming your way this month. In October, the Social ...

COLAs are intended to maintain the purchasing power of Social Security benefits amidst inflation. The COLA is calculated ...

The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for 2025 is a 2.5% increase. That means the monthly benefits checks ...

Social Security's 2025 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) took effect in January. Benefits will increase 2.5% this year, the ...

Ohio's minimum wage increased on Jan. 1 to $10.70 per hour for non-tipped employees and $5.35 per hour for tipped employees. The minimum wage will apply to employees of businesses with annual gross ...

The COLA used for the following Social Security benefits for 2025 would have been based on the percentage increase in the CPI ...

The state minimum wage is tied to the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W) for urban wage earners and clerical workers over the 12-month period prior to September. The CPI-W index increased by 2.4 % over the ...

However, the market focuses on the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), while the SSA uses the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) to ...

The SSA measures that inflation using the changes in the third-quarter averages of the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) from one year to the next.

L&I calculates the minimum wage for the coming year using the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). L&I compares the CPI-W ...