Both of those numbers are above recent forecasts from the Senior Citizen's League and independent analyst Mary Johnson. Both ...

One of the most important pieces of Social Security retirement benefits is the annual cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA.

In 2025, benefits got a 2.5% COLA. Many older Americans are hoping that 2026's COLA will be larger, or at the very least, the ...

The anticipated Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for Social Security in 2026 is projected to fall below the historical ...

It's best to set yourself up to not be too reliant on Social Security raises each year. The purpose of Social Security COLAs ...

The annual COLA is appreciated, but it hasn't always kept up with inflation enough to reasonably cancel it out. According to ...

There has been a clear trend in TSCL's Social Security COLA predictions. For four consecutive months, the projected increase ...

The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) has predicted that Social Security's 2026 Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) will be 2.5 ...

For 2024, Social Security recipients got a 3.2% COLA. In 2023, the annual adjustment reached 8.7% — a nearly 40-year high as inflation soared — while the 2022 COLA stood at 5.9%. Social ...

Social Security's 2026 cost-of-living adjustment may be 2.5%, a new estimate shows. But COLA could still get a boost if ...

That will mark the smallest COLA since 2021, when seniors received a 1.3% adjustment due to the pandemic's low rate of inflation. Because inflation surged in 2022 and 2023, Social Security ...

The Social Security COLA for 2024 was 3.2%, following a large 8.7% COLA for 2023. Depending on which of the above projections is correct, the 2025 COLA will either be slightly smaller or just ...