In swallowing Social Security’s stingy 2025 COLA bump, some Americans may wonder what federal officials have been drinking.

In 2022 and 2023, many seniors on Social Security struggled to keep up with surging bills. In 2025, costs are expected to ...

Congress is considering switching Social Security's cost of living calculation from CPI-W to CPI-E, which would better match seniors' actual spending patterns and potentially provide more accurate ...

Less than six weeks remain before retirees will get a raise. Last month, the Social Security Administration announced that ...

The reason Social Security benefits are eligible for an automatic cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) each year is that without an inflation-based boost, seniors would be guaranteed to lose buying ...

That raise increases the average monthly benefit by $49. When you factor in the increased cost of Medicare Part B, the average Social Security recipient will see a much smaller boost. It's ...

Instead of applying COLA to the roughly $839 Social Security benefit ... finance reporter at USA TODAY. You can reach her at [email protected] andsubscribe to our free Daily Money newsletter ...

The Social Security annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2025 is 2.5%, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced Thursday. This is the smallest increase since 2020, as expected ...

The 2025 Social Security COLA is 2.5%. That's less than the 3.2% beneficiaries got in 2024 and well under the 8.7% they got in 2023. This is due to cooling inflation, which has slowed the rate the ...

Some retirees might understandably feel disappointed when the Social Security Administration (SSA) announces a lower cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), as ... email from us on behalf of our trusted ...

Now, consider the US Social Security system. Current workers' payroll taxes fund the benefits of current retirees, much like how Ponzi's scheme used new money to pay off old promises." Boccia ...

Every retiree in the country, I'd imagine, heard President-elect Donald Trump's promise to eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits ... 45th president of the United States – expire at ...