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% ...

Social Security benefits are a crucial income source for many seniors, so it’s common for retirees to eagerly await the news ...

Once they stop working, many people's main source of financial stability goes away. Lots of retirees count on one government ...

The cost-of-living adjustment figure for Social Security benefits typically would have been released Oct. 15 under normal circumstances. But the government shutdown triggered a delay. In 2025, more ...

The 2026 Social Security COLA is 2.8%. We calculate how much extra money you'll see after the big Medicare Part B premium ...

An automatic cost-of-living adjustment, or CoLA, is effectively a system of wage indexation designed to address inflation, ...

More specifically, it is the full retirement age that is changing in 2026. Technically, you can start claiming retirement ...

Retirees might not actually receive as much extra money from next year's Social Security COLA as they anticipate.

Social Security recipients got some decent news at the end of October. The Social Security Administration announced that in ...

The 2025 COLA of 2.5% wasn't enough to cover the higher prices paid by many retirees. History shows that COLAs don't offset inflation in the following year nearly half the time. Retirees have some ...

You're not the only one who was disappointed when the Social Security Administration announced a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2026 last month. While it's technically a bit above average ...