Tens of millions of Americans rely on Social Security benefits for a substantial portion of their retirement income. Not only is Social Security a valuable source of retirement income, with the ...

The Social Security program undergoes a series of revisions each year to ensure benefit payments keep pace with inflation and ...

The non-partisan advocacy group The Senior Citizens League predicts the 2026 COLA will be 2.1%, based on data from the Bureau ...

Nearly 68 million Americans receive Social Security benefits each month. Here are three myths that can cause confusion and anxiety.

By now, all seniors on Social Security should have gotten their first checks for 2025. With the latest 2.5% cost-of-living ...

Social Security benefits received a 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2025, but for many retirees, this is not enough ...

The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W): This index is used to determine the annual cost of living adjustments to Social Security benefits and to adjust ...

tied to a subset of the Consumer Price Index known as the CPI-W, which tracks the price of goods and services across the economy. Here is how it works: The CPI-W from the third quarter of the ...

The Consumer Price Index measures changes in the average price level of goods and services purchased by households over time. It is used to measure inflation and indicates the cost of living for ...