The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) applied to Social Security payments in any given year is based on CPI-W inflation from ...
Every year, the Social Security Administration, or SSA, examines inflation data and adjusts Social Security benefits ...
If you receive Social Security retirement benefits, more money should be coming your way this month. In October, the Social ...
The Senior Citizens League (TSCL), a nonpartisan senior group, recently released their monthly COLA estimate, predicting that ...
Social Security's COLAs are determined based on CPI-W inflation, which has reaccelerated since the 2025 pay increase was calculated. Social Security benefits are arguably on track to lose buying ...
The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for 2025 is a 2.5% increase. That means the monthly benefits checks for more than 72.5 million Americans will see their lowest annual bump in ...
A second large survey is the CPI-W, which is a monthly accounting of the average change in the prices that urban wages earners and clerical workers pay for a market basket of consumer goods and ...
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in December, ...
The Consumer Price Index (CPI-W) for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers is the benchmark the SSA uses to determine the COLA, but that wasn’t always the case. How the COLA is calculated has ...
Tim Evanson/Flickr.com (CC by SA-2.0) The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the most widely used metric for consumer inflation changes over time and utilizes data based on consumer buying habits from ...