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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 ...
In the early morning hours of Oct. 10, the SSA lifted the hood on the 2025 COLA, which offers something of a good news/bad news scenario for Social Security recipients in the upcoming year.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Because there's a wage cap for Social Security taxes, there's also a maximum monthly benefit the program will pay out. In 2025, that maximum monthly benefit at full retirement age will be $4,018 ...
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 ...