Almost all Social Security beneficiaries are familiar with the most popular and publicized upcoming change: the increase in ...

Thanks to inflation, living costs tend to rise over time. Social Security's cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) often do a poor job of keeping up. Rather than bank on them in retirement, set yourself ...

However, there's no such thing as a negative Social Security COLA. If the CPI-W has a year-over-year decrease during the third quarter of a given year, benefits will simply remain flat. Seniors are ...

Social Security's cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) often fail seniors due to a flaw in the way they're calculated. When there's a decrease in inflation from year to year, Social Security benefits ...

Cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) are a crucial part of the Social Security benefits program. A new report shows that COLAs are letting seniors down more often than not. The report says 69% of COLAs ...

Social Security COLAs are tied to CPI-W inflation data from July through September, not to Federal Reserve interest rate decisions. The 2026 COLA is locked at 2.8% and will not change due to recent ...

Annual COLAs apply to the base benefits of both current and future Social Security recipients. COLAs exist to protect all Social Security benefits from being eroded by inflation. Waiting until age 67 ...