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The 2.5 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will begin with benefits payable to nearly 68 million Social Security beneficiaries in January 2025. Increased payments to nearly 7.5 million SSI recipients will begin on December 31, 2024.
2023 SOCIAL SECURITY CHANGES Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA): Based on the increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W) from the third quarter of 2021 through the third quarter of 2022, Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries will receive an 8.7 percent COLA for 2023.
The latest COLA is 2.5 percent for Social Security benefits and SSI payments. Social Security benefits will increase by 2.5 percent beginning with the December 2024 benefits, which are payable in January 2025.
The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) helps to offset these costs. We will mail COLA notices throughout the month of December to retirement, survivors, and disability beneficiaries, SSI recipients, and representative payees.
We determined a 2.5-percent COLA on October 10, 2024. We will announce the next COLA in October 2025. Social Security program information. COLA History; How the COLA is applied to Social Security retirement benefits; Effect of the 2.5-percent COLA on average Social Security benefit amounts
COLA determination. SSI payment rates increase with COLA. Since 1975, Social Security general benefit increases have been cost-of-living adjustments or COLAs. The 1975-82 COLAs were effective with Social Security benefits payable for June in each of those years; thereafter COLAs have been effective with benefits payable for December.
The AWI is used to index an individual's earnings through age 60 in the benefit calculation formula, and the COLA is used to increase benefits annually. The COLA shown for a year is effective for December of that year, but is payable in January of the following year.
Each year, Social Security bases the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) on changes in the Consumer Price Index. For 2023, Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security (SSI) payments will increase by 8.7%.
The 8.7 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will begin with benefits payable to more than 65 million Social Security beneficiaries in January 2023. Increased payments to more than 7 million SSI beneficiaries will begin on December 30, 2022.
How much will the COLA amount be for 2025 and when will I receive it? Views: How much is the increase: Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments for more than 72.5 million Americans will increase by 2.5% in 2025.