Retirees await the 2026 Social Security COLA announcement, a key adjustment to help offset rising living costs and protect ...

In 2023, seniors on Social Security saw their benefits rise by 8.7% as one of the most generous cost-of-living adjustments, or COLAs, arrived in the midst of soaring inflation. This year's COLA, ...

Although Social Security benefits increased before 1975, annual COLAs didn't begin until then. The average Social Security COLA is skewed by big increases in the 1970s and early 1980s. The next COLA ...

The much-anticipated projection for the 2025 Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) has been released, giving ...

How would a 2.7% COLA stack up against previous increases? Last year, Social Security beneficiaries received a 2.5% COLA. Over the last two decades, the average Social Security increase has been 2.6%.

You might have noticed the amount of the COLA was 0% in three years: 2009, 2010, and 2015. That's because the CPI-W in the third quarter of each year didn't increase from the average level in the same ...