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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

For some retired Americans, Social Security is supplemental income, or bonus money they can use on top of a robust nest egg. But not everyone is that fortunate. The reality is that many retired ...

That's an improvement from the 2.5% COLA seniors received this year. There's a good chance many Social Security recipients who depend on their benefits will continue to struggle financially. It's a ...

Social Security and SSI payments will continue during the government shutdown as they are mandated by law. A 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment will increase Social Security and SSI payments starting in ...