The budget recommendations for the following years are also substantially lower than the 21 percent called for from 2025 to ...

Retirees across the U.S. lead very different lifestyles, but nearly all of them depend upon Social Security to pay for at ...

Although retired-worker benefits are set to make history in 2026, the latest COLA forecast is anything but reassuring.

The latest cost-of-living projection for 2026 shows that seniors could see less of an increase than last year, according to ...

In October the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced that Social Security beneficiaries, as well as those who ...

The Senior Citizens League increased its COLA 2026 estimates to 2.3%, citing a modest reacceleration in the inflation rates ...

According to non-partisan group, The Senior Citizens League, 2026's cost of living adjustment increases will not likely keep ...

The latest cost-of-living projection shows that seniors could see a decrease in Social Security benefits. The 2026 COLA is ...

In a perfect world, the COLAs and inflation would increase in lockstep so that your Social Security checks' buying power remained constant. But that's not what happens in reality. TSCL found that ...

Social Security's Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA), introduced in 1972, automatically preserves seniors' purchasing power by adjusting benefits based on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners ...

However, Social Security's COLA is a give-and-take mechanism that ... A separate TSCL report from May 2023 calculated a 36% loss of purchasing power from 2000 through February 2023.