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The Social Security Administration announced recently that seniors will get a 2.5% benefits increase for the 2025 year. That amounts to around $49 more in monthly benefits for the average retiree.
The current Social Security COLA projection for 2025 is 2.5%, according to the Senior Citizens League. TSCL updated its 2025 COLA prediction based on August's CPI-W data, which came in at 2.5%.
In the early morning hours of Oct. 10, the SSA lifted the hood on the 2025 COLA, which offers something of a good news/bad news scenario for Social Security recipients in the upcoming year.
In 2025, nearly 73 million Social Security and SSI recipients will see their benefits increase by 2.5%. That’s just under the 2.5% by which the average COLA boosted benefits over the last decade.
The general Social Security earnings-test limit in 2025 is $23,400 (up from $22,320 in 2024). You'll have $1 in Social Security withheld for every $2 you earn above that limit.
The Social Security Administration will not announce the official 2025 COLA until October, but The Senior Citizens League expects benefits to increase 2.6% next year. The chart below illustrates ...
Data source: Social Security Administration, The Senior Citizens League. Payments have been rounded to the nearest dollar. 2. Social Security's full retirement age will increase in 2025
More than two-thirds of Social Security beneficiaries surveyed by The Senior Citizens League said the 3.2% COLA applied to payments this year failed to offset the increase in their household costs.