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The COLA for 2025 will be 2.5%, which is the lowest adjustment since 2021. It's also substantially lower than the COLAs in 2022 and 2023, which were 5.9% and 8.7%, respectively.
By now, all seniors on Social Security should have gotten their first checks for 2025. With the latest 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in effect, the average benefit has climbed to $1,976 ...
The average cost-of-living adjustment since 2010 has been a more modest 2.3%. But it's one thing to talk about percentages and an entirely different matter when digging into what the 2025 COLA ...
The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) applied to Social Security payments in any given year is based on CPI-W inflation from the third quarter of the previous year. In that sense, COLAs are a ...
The COLA for 2025 is the second straight year of more normal annual adjustments, following large increases seen in 2023 and 2022. The 2025 increase follows this year’s rise of 3.2 percent, which ...
The cost-of-living adjustment was merely 1.3% in 2021 — making it one of the lowest increases on record since 1975 when Social Security started automatic annual cost-of-living allowances. It was ...
Here's how the latest cost-of-living adjustment stacks up. A person holding an envelope containing a check from the United States Treasury. Image source: Getty Images.
For 2025, the CPI-W showed a 2.5% increase in 2024, so benefits increased by 2.5%. However, inflation picked up speed toward the end of 2024, which means prices rose faster than the adjustment ...