What's more, surveys have shown that Social Security checks are necessary for seniors to make ends meet. A poll from ...

The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) applied to Social Security payments in any given year is based on CPI-W inflation from ...

The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for 2025 is the lowest since the post-Covid inflation spike. Yet retirees still ...

It’s not uncommon for seniors on Social Security to collect those benefits for two decades or longer. But in that long a time ...

The Senior Citizens League (TSCL), a nonpartisan senior group, recently released their monthly COLA estimate, predicting that ...

Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, went into effect recently and was reflected on the payments received in ...

back in 2022, the CPI-W average was a whopping 8.7% higher than the year before, reflecting record-high inflation rates. While that COLA substantially increased the average Social Security benefit ...

Checks are issued throughout the month, based on the recipient's birth date or the duration of time they have been receiving benefits.

those discrepancies tend to balance out over time because CPI-W inflation in some years falls below the COLA applied to Social Security in the next year. That actually happened with the 2022 and ...

The Social Security Administration typically announces the official COLA adjustment in October. Although inflation has fallen from it's peak of more than 9% in the summer of 2022, it's proven ...

Several changes to Social Security have gone into effect this year, impacting the nearly 68 million people who receive Social ...