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.

A Yahoo/YouGov poll found that 49% of respondents said Trump's actions since taking office in January have raised prices ...

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.

Though a history-making cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) would typically be something to celebrate, this is unlikely to be ...

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

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

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

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% ...

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

Americans are more likely to say President Trump has raised prices than lower them since returning to office this year, according to a new survey. In a Yahoo/YouGov poll, conducted in late ...

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