The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for 2025 is a 2.5% increase. That means the monthly benefits checks ...
COLA likely underestimated inflation in 2024 Social Security's annual cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) are designed to ...
The first round of Social Security retirement benefits for 2025 will be paid this week. Social Security benefits form the ...
As we step into 2025, you may be setting financial goals. While you're at it, you should also keep tabs on the Social ...
The Social Security COLA increase for 2025 is finally here, and so is your boosted benefits check. Here's when you can expect ...
One of the most important aspects of Social Security is that recipients are eligible for a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) ...
"Americans who have worked hard all their lives to earn an honest living should be able to retire with economic security and ...
SSDI recipients will soon see an increase to their benefits checks when the 2025 COLA goes into effect this January.
The updates include a higher cost-of-living adjustment, revisions to the earnings test thresholds, and increases in maximum benefits.
As a result of the 2008 financial and mortgage crisis, a hefty 5.8% increase in COLA was applied in 2009, the most significant increase that Social Security benefits had seen since 1982.
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.
The vast majority of seniors surveyed about Social Security's COLA say the number should be as much as five times higher than ...