Retired-worker benefits can hit a psychologically important level next year, but seniors are still likely to get the short ...

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 ...

For instance, let's hypothetically say the collective price for a large basket of goods and services regularly purchased by retirees increases in price by 3% from one year to the ...

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

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.

Social Security provides financial benefits to senior citizens, low-income individuals and people with disabilities. Beneficiaries receive a monthly payment on a specified schedule, and that schedule ...

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

The 2025 Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, went into effect recently ... and this was the smallest increase since early 2022. Healthcare is another cost that disproportionately ...

In 2024, when the Social Security COLA was up 3.2% (based on consumer prices being up from the third quarter of 2022 through the third quarter of 2023), consumer prices were up 3.4% for the whole ...