In 2026, Social Security checks are getting bigger. That’s the good news. The bad news, however, is that retirees are likely ...

The chancellor says she is "asking ordinary people to pay a little bit more" as she extends the freeze on income tax bands.

Almost a year ago, I wrote a CounterPunch article on how the social security cost of living increase was eroded by higher charges for Medicare coverage.

As the Social Security Administration's retirement trust fund is bound to become insolvent in under a decade, it proposes to ...

Inflation has a way of driving living costs up. That’s why Social Security’s annual cost-of-living adjustments, or COLAs, are ...

It’s official. Medicare costs will eat up much of older Americans’ Social Security cost-of-living increase next year. The ...

About half of retirees now pay federal taxes on their Social Security benefits, far more than the 10% originally intended in ...

Looking a bit further back, Social Security's 2.8% raise ties for the ninth-largest year-over-year increase since this century began. It trails the respective COLAs of 3.5% in 2001, 4.1% in 2006, 3.3% ...

New England has never been known for its affordability, but even the area's already high prices pale in comparison to one ...

The SSA puts the average monthly Social Security retirement benefit before next year's 2.8% COLA at $2,015 per month. Once ...

The library board voted Tuesday to remove the increase from interim Library Director Kyla Robertson Webb's proposed 2026 ...

A 2.5% tariff increase will come in from March, which Jersey Electricity says reflects the rising cost of living and need to ...