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Social Security benefits received a 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2025, but for many retirees, this is not enough to keep up with rising prices. Their monthly checks don't go as far as ...
Inflation continued to decline on an annual basis in January, as the Consumer Price Index for January 2023 rose only 6.4% -- well off the 9.1% peak set in June 2022. That should be cheery news to...
A whopping 66% of U.S. adults are unaware that Social Security benefits are protected against inflation, according to a 2024 report from the Nationwide Retirement Institute.
Social Security is funded by a dedicated payroll tax of 12.4%. This means that Social Security will be paid at least to the extent of payroll tax collections. Program payroll tax collections were roughly equal to payouts in 2010 and are estimated to fall to about 75% of payouts by the mid-2030s and continue around that level through the early ...
CBO: U.S. Federal spending and revenue components for fiscal year 2023. Major expenditure categories are healthcare, Social Security, and defense; income and payroll taxes are the primary revenue sources. For most governments around the world, the majority of government spending takes place at the federal/national level.
Contractionary fiscal policy, on the other hand, is a measure to increase tax rates and decrease government spending. It occurs when government deficit spending is lower than usual. This has the potential to slow economic growth if inflation, which was caused by a significant increase in aggregate demand and the supply of money, is excessive.
Spending for Social Security is projected to rise relative to GDP, while discretionary programs decline. The CBO projected in 2010 that an increase in payroll taxes ranging from 1.6–2.1% of the payroll tax base, equivalent to 0.6–0.8% of GDP, would be necessary to put the Social Security program in fiscal balance for the next 75 years. [45]
The Social Security Administration's October announcement about the highest cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 40 years -- at a 5.9% boost -- was still being celebrated when the news was ...