The Administration will send two SSI payments in October 2025, with one payment on Oct. 1 and another on Oct. 31 due to the 2025 calendar scheduling.

“The following examples apply if you earned the taxable maximum in each year beginning at age 22 and start receiving benefits in 2025,” it adds. “If you retire at full retirement age in 2025, your benefit would be $4,018. If you retire at age 62 in 2025, your benefit would be $2,831. If you retire at age 70 in 2025, your benefit would be $5,108.”

Perhaps the easiest way to grow your monthly Social Security benefits is to delay your claim until age 70. For each year you hold off on filing for benefits beyond full retirement age, your monthly checks get a permanent 8% boost, up until 70.

More than seven million people across the U.S. are set to receive a benefits check from the Social Security Administration this week.

Retirees must wait another five and a half weeks (give or take a few days) for the Social Security Administration (SSA) to announce the 2026 COLA. The agency needs inflation data for September 2025 to finalize its calculations. That information should be released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in mid-October.

The health care and financial support programs are facing a funding shortfall that may hit as early as the mid-2030s.

President Trump's tariff and trade policy is set to influence Social Security's "raise" for the upcoming year.

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