The annual COLA is appreciated, but it hasn't always kept up with inflation enough to reasonably cancel it out. According to ...

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The Social Security program, a financial cornerstone for millions of Americans since 1935, relies on annual cost-of-living ...

Is it too early to speculate how much more retirees might receive in Social Security benefits next year? In fact, The Senior ...

With the CPI-W, shelter and medical expenses aren't receiving enough weighting, which has resulted in this roughly $6,200/year shortfall in payouts over the past 23 years.

Early estimates point to a 2.5% COLA for January 2026, matching this year's modest bump. If confirmed in October, after the ...

CPI-W began to be used for COLA in 1975, as Congress began offering automatic annual COLAs based on CPI-W. It used to be based on the first or second quarter of the previous year, ...

The CPI-W is inherently flawed. Social Security's COLA has been determined by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, or CPI-W, since 1975.

When CPI-W data for April was released this May, the Senior Citizens League updated their projections on May 13, 2026. According to the most recent data, retirees are expected to be on track for a ...

Based on figures from the Labor Bureau’s most recent Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners (CPI-W), next year’s cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is projected to be only 2.63%.

The actual COLA won’t be determined until after September 30 when the actual CPI-W data is compiled. How Much Of An Increase/Decrease Is This From 2024? The Social Security COLA for 2024 was 3.2 ...

The CPI-W currently is about 5.6% higher than the base quarter (267.53/253.412). The Social Security Administration uses the third quarter average CPI-W compared to the average of the previous ...