Social Security, COLA

Why your next Social Security COLA could change if Kamala Harris wins in November
Your future Social Security benefit increases could be affected by which candidate wins the upcoming presidential election.
Disappointed in Your 2025 Social Security COLA? Here's Why You Shouldn't Be.
On Oct. 10, the Social Security Administration (SSA) dropped a bombshell by announcing that monthly benefits would be rising by 2.5% in 2025. That's a considerably lower cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, than 2024's 3.2% increase. And it's also the smallest Social Security COLA to arrive since 2021 when benefits rose by just 1.3%.
What the New Social Security COLA Increase Means for You
Now that the 2025 COLA increase has been announced by the Social Security Administration, here's what you need to know.
Smaller Social Security COLA for 2025: What Retirees Need to Know
Each year, Social Security recipients receive a cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, designed to help offset the impact of inflation on their benefits.
Social Security Just Announced the 2025 COLA. Here's How It Compares to Recent Years
Social Security averages the CPI-W data for July, August, and September and compares it to the previous year's number. If the number is higher than the previous year's, the increase becomes the COLA. If the number is lower than the previous year's, Social Security doesn't reduce monthly benefits -- they remain the same.
2025 Social Security COLA: Your top 5 questions, answered
The extent to which your monthly Social Security payments will increase in 2025 will hinge on a few factors. These include an official COLA number, whether you're enrolled in Medicare, and whether the cost of Part B rises in 2025.
Jill On Money: Social security alert — COLA 2025
With the 2025 COLA announcement, the average Social Security check for individual retirees will increase from $1,927 per month to $1,976
Donald Trump ad distorts Kamala Harris’ stance on Social Security taxes
Rather, she has proposed lifting the payroll income tax cap beyond which the government stops taxing workers. The people who would pay higher taxes under Harris’ proposal are neither older nor struggling.
Trump and Harris pledged to save Social Security. Here’s what they’ll do.
Vice President Harris and former President Trump have both vowed to protect Social Security, but experts say both of their campaign platforms fall short of specific solutions for a program that faces threats to funding in roughly a decade.
Social Security: It'll be harder to qualify for retirement benefits starting in 2025 — what to know
It will become slightly harder to qualify for Social Security benefits in retirement next year amid a change related to the ...
50% of Retirees May Return to Work Because of an Insufficient 2025 Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA)
In reality, many older American end up retiring on Social Security alone. And people in that boat unfortunately risk a world ...
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Social Security sets its 2025 COLA increase at 2.5%. Here's how it will change your benefits.
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 ...
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The 2025 Social Security COLA Is 2.5%: See What That Means for Your Social Security Payments
Your Social Security benefits aren’t likely to cover all of your expenses in retirement, but a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) can help offset some of the pain associated with inflation.