The official COLA won't be announced by the Social Security Administration until October, but it's worth paying attention to ...

Based on the latest estimates from those who know the Social Security program inside and out, benefit cuts are possible for ...

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

Social Security benefits are at the center of major changes in 2025. A rare cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) prediction and a ...

The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) has predicted that Social Security's 2026 Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) will be 2.5 percent, up from April's prediction of 2.4 percent.

A larger COLA means a bigger pay increase for Social Security recipients. For instance, the average retired-worker benefit was $2,002 in May 2025. The 2.5% COLA forecast by TSCL would bring that ...

COLA affects more than 70 million Americans who receive Social Security benefits, and while the modest forecast suggests promising signs of dropping inflation, there still could be tighter ...

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That is up from the 2.4% increase for 2026 that those sources forecast last month. A 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment would be "about average," according to Johnson. The Social Security cost-of-living ...

On Wednesday, the nonpartisan senior advocacy group‘s latest forecast for the 2026 cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) included a warning about how the payment increase will be determined.