One positive aspect of Social Security is that the program is set up to adapt to economic changes. Each year, for example, ...

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

This is intended to help seniors and other Social Security recipients keep up with inflation and is based on Consumer Price ...

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

Over 162,000 New Jerseyans who are low-income, blind or disabled and rely on payments from the Social Security Administration ...

Social Security recipients may see a modest 2.5% increase in 2026, matching the smallest COLA in four years. Posted: January 27, 2025 | Last updated: January 27, 2025 ...

Most U.S. seniors will have to look to their savings or other government benefits if their Social Security benefits don't go ...

Forget about COLAs for a minute -- because Social Security itself has some big problems. More money is being paid out of its ...

Social Security's earnings test limits also rose in 2025. This year, seniors who work and collect benefits will be able to ...

Recipients of Social Security received an increase in benefits in 2025, as they do every year. However, new economic data and ...

The 2.5% COLA applied to Social Security in 2025 underestimates the 2.9% increase in full-year CPI-W inflation in 2024, meaning benefits lost buying power. Since 1975, Social Security ...

examines inflation data and adjusts Social Security benefits accordingly. In short, the annual cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, is designed to help retirees keep up with the rising cost of ...