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The 2025 COLA. Arguably, the biggest change coming to Social Security in 2025 is the annual cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA. To be sure, inflation has cooled off considerably, and as a result ...
The Social Security Administration set its 2025 cost-of-living adjustment at 2.5%, the smallest annual COLA hike since 2021. Although inflation has eased from its pandemic-era heights, some ...
It's official: Social Security benefits will receive a 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2025, the smallest percent increase in payments since 2021. That means the average retired worker ...
Social Security's official 2025 COLA is 2.5%, which is quite a bit lower than the 3.2% COLA seniors received at the start of 2024. ... there's also a maximum monthly benefit the program will pay ...
The percent increase then becomes the COLA in the following year. For instance, the CPI-W increased 2.5% in the third quarter of 2024, which means Social Security benefits will get a 2.5% COLA in ...
The average monthly Social Security benefit is expected to rise from $1,927 to $1,976 once 2025's COLA takes effect. That's a $49 increase. But that doesn't mean you should automatically expect ...
But as upset as seniors may be about a 2.5% COLA, there's a chance 2026's Social Security raise will be even lower. And that's something beneficiaries should gear up for now. Why the news may not ...
Image source: Getty Images. 1. Social Security benefits will get a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2025. Social Security benefits are protected from inflation by cost-of-living adjustments ...