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A whopping 66% of U.S. adults are unaware that Social Security benefits are protected against inflation, according to a 2024 report from the Nationwide Retirement Institute.
In January of each year, Social Security recipients receive a cost of living adjustment (COLA) "to ensure that the purchasing power of Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits is not eroded by inflation. It is based on the percentage increase in the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W)".
Inflation continued to decline on an annual basis in January, as the Consumer Price Index for January 2023 rose only 6.4% -- well off the 9.1% peak set in June 2022. That should be cheery news to...
What caused inflation in 2022? A major cause of inflation in 2022 was the supply chain issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic -- as goods became scarce, prices went up in response to continued demand.
Inflation in New Zealand exceeded forecasts in July 2022, reaching 7.3%, which is the highest since 1990. [232] Economists at ANZ reportedly said they expected faster interest rate increases to counteract inflationary pressures. [233] In Fiji, inflation rose to 4.7% in April 2022 compared to –2.4% in 2021. [234]
Current Social Security system advocates claim that when the risks, overhead costs and borrowing costs of any privatization plan are taken together, the result is that such a plan has a lower expected rate of return than "pay as you go" systems. They point out the high overheads of privatized plans in the United Kingdom and Chile.
The annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, is based on third-quarter inflation data, so it was officially announced in October when the last of the official CPI data from the ...
The Social Security Administration's October announcement about the highest cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 40 years -- at a 5.9% boost -- was still being celebrated when the news was ...