A history-making Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2026 will lift nominal-dollar retired-worker checks well ...
Social Security recipients recently learned what their cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will be in 2026. The rules that ...
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 ...
Starting in January 2026, the average monthly Social Security check for the U.S.’s 74.5 million Social Security recipients will be around $1,917, up 2.8% from 2025. That’s an increase of about $52 per ...
The Social Security Emergency Inflation Relief Act proposed by Democratic Senators would temporarily increase some benefits ...
Looking a bit further back, Social Security's 2.8% raise ties for the ninth-largest year-over-year increase since this ...
COLA boost to higher earnings cap and tax threshholds, the next year brings significant updates, however, healthcare cost could eat into the gains.