For most Americans, Social Security provides indispensable monthly income they'd struggle to make do without. In each of the ...

New government inflation data points to a lower Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for 2026 compared to the 2.5% ...

The other reason a nominally higher Social Security check isn't necessarily good news for retirees is because the Old-Age and ...

In January, the average retired-worker benefit check totaled $1,978.77. This means TSCL's updated COLA forecast implies a ...

Inflation slowed sharply in March, new data showed Thursday, underscoring the continued strength and resilience of the ...

The annual Social Security COLA is calculated using the CPI-W inflation metric. The Senior Citizens League recently updated its prediction for the 2026 COLA based on the latest CPI-W figure.

Both the overall and core CPI measures rose by a modest 0.1 percent for March, bringing the 12-month trend rates down to 2.4 ...

Put simply, a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is a "change in benefits based on changes in the prices of goods and services, ...

Social Security COLA forecasts show a potential 2.3% boost but rising housing and healthcare costs may still erode retirees’ ...

The yearly COLA is calculated by using Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners (CPI-W) for the months of July, August, and September each year. Those numbers are compared to the year prior and ...