E very year, Social Security benefits undergo a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to align with inflation rates. This ...

Most retirees have probably gotten used to their Social Security benefits increase for 2025 by now. The latest cost-of-living ...

COLA won’t be announced until October, but already forecasts are indicating a smaller increase for Social Security ...

Following a decade of anemic cost-of-living adjustments, a historic increase in the U.S. money supply sent the prevailing ...

BLS announced the CPI-W for February last week. TSCL quickly determined that the 2026 COLA would be 2.8% based on the average ...

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While COLAs are designed to match inflation, the 2026 forecast fails to cover the rising costs of essential expenses like ...

Table by author. As shown, Social Security recipients would have received bigger COLAs in 2024 and 2025 had the pay raises been based on CPI-E inflation rather than the CPI-W inflation.

Along with directing the Social Security Administration (SSA) to adjust benefits based on CPI-E rather than CPI-W (if CPI-E would result in a larger increase in benefits), the Boosting Benefits ...