Social Security (retirement and survivors) recipients will now see a 2.5% increase in their next check and throughout the ...

Technically speaking, this is the 2024 COLA, as it goes into effect in December 2024. However, because Social Security is ...

Each year, tens of millions of retirees collecting Social Security benefits anxiously await the upcoming COLA, or ...

The vast majority of seniors surveyed about Social Security's COLA say the number should be as much as five times higher than ...

Social Security benefits have gone up 2.5% in 2025, thanks to the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA). It's a smaller increase than the 3.2% bump that recipients saw in 2024, reflecting ...

A half-dozen changes, concerning everything from Social Security checks to the payroll tax select workers will owe, are now ...

Social Security beneficiaries have some changes coming in December and January, due to quirks of the calendar and a payment hike.

The annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, is based on third-quarter inflation data, so it was officially announced in October when the last of the official CPI data from the ...

The Cost of Living Adjustment is rising in 2025, which will change the amount of money people will receive in their Social ...

Social Security is tweaked each year to account for changes in areas such as life expectancy and cost of living.

The Social Security COLA that is about to go into effect will result in a 2.5% increase in everyone's Social Security benefits. Technically speaking, this is the 2024 COLA, as it goes into effect ...

It has been my custom for most of the past 27 years to write a year-end column that summarizes the Social Security updates scheduled to take place the following year.