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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 ...
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 ...
With this change, employees will pay up to $10,918.20 in 2025, compared to $10,453.20 currently. The employer will pay the other $10,918.20. ... Social Security Announced a COLA Increase for 2025 ...
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 ...
Here's the big picture: While the 2.5% COLA in 2025 is the smallest increase in Social Security benefits in four years -- 3.2% in 2024, 8.7% in 2023, and 5.9% in 2022 -- that means prices across ...
This year's 3.2% COLA was above average over the past decade, and 2023's 8.7% COLA was a record-breaker. Social Security cards. Image source: Getty Images. But in 2025, ...
In fact, next year's 2.5% bump is higher than the 2010's average COLA of 1.4%, and is similar to the average since 1983 (after the soaring inflation of the preceding decade). What it means for ...
Seniors should brace for a smaller 2025 COLA Based on August's CPI-W reading, the nonpartisan Senior Citizens League is projecting that 2025's Social Security COLA will amount to 2.5%. This is a ...