In 2025, benefits got a 2.5% COLA. Many older Americans are hoping that 2026's COLA will be larger, or at the very least, the ...

Social Security benefits are one of the most important income sources for retirees for many reasons. These benefits are ...

Social Security COLAs are inflation-based increases to Social Security benefits. Learn how cost-of-living adjustments are determined and how it breaks down for the average beneficiary.

COLAs are a percentage of your checks. The Social Security Administration represents COLAs as a percentage. It adds this percentage to your existing checks to determine your 2026 benefit amount.

Social Security retirees received a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA). COLAs are periodic raises that are intended to help ...

Social Security benefits are at the center of major changes in 2025. A rare cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) prediction and a ...

Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments, or COLAs, are a lifeline for seniors. Without them, Social Security benefits ...

COLAs help to ensure benefits don’t lose buying power due to inflation. Seniors received some impressive COLAs in the 1970s and 1980s. Are you ahead, or behind on retirement?