Mary Johnson, an independent Social Security analyst, said: "COLA doesn't keep pace with real inflation. The year-over-year ...

President Trump returned the White House for a second term less than two months ago, but he has already signaled a dramatic ...

Cost-of-living adjustments have been something of a mixed bag for retirees over the last 16 years. The 2010s were a period of ...

The Social Security COLA, or cost-of-living adjustment, is the process by which the Social Security Administration increases benefits to keep up with rising costs over time. While the general idea of ...

Another thing that's changed in the past two decades is the average monthly Social Security benefit. In 2005, it was $1,002, or just over $12,000 annually. Fast-forward 20 years, and the average ...

Millions of retirees face growing financial uncertainty as early projections suggest Social Security's 2026 cost-of-living ...

They're calculated based on third-quarter data from the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). When there's an increase in that CPI-W data from one year to the next, ...

Most importantly, retirees typically spend more on shelter and medical care, which means the CPI-W puts too little weight on ...

Analysts now expect the 2026 COLA to be 2.2%, down from 2.5% in 2025, according to forecasts from the Senior Citizens League and from independent Social Security and Medicare analyst Mary Johnson.

The Consumer Price Index report released early Wednesday showed a lower-than-expected increase in inflation for the month of ...

The early forecast for the 2026 COLA is already out, and seniors could be in for an even smaller raise in 2026. The Senior ...