The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for 2025 is the lowest since the post-Covid inflation spike. Yet retirees still ...

One positive aspect of Social Security is that the program is set up to adapt to economic changes. Each year, for example, ...

Social Security's 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2025 was disappointing for many seniors. It added just $49 to the ...

The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment officially goes into effect in December of each year -- so technically speaking ...

Almost all Social Security beneficiaries are familiar with the most popular and publicized change: the increase in monthly benefit checks for 2025 due to the automated cost-of-living adjustment, or ...

Millions of Americans will see higher Social Security checks now that the windfall elimination provision (WEP) is abolished.

The Social Security COLA increase for 2025 is finally here, and so is your boosted benefits check. Here's when you can expect ...

Investopedia spoke with Isabel Barrow at Edelman Financial Engines to discuss the changes the new Social Security Fairness Law will bring and the impact it could have on retirees.

Unfortunately, there have been a few years without an increase in the CPI-W, so there hasn’t been a cost-of-living increase in COLA for Social Security benefits. Since 1975, this has only ...

Increases in life expectancy mean more money spent on benefits for the average person. In 1940, when the first Social Security benefits checks were sent out, life expectancy was 61.4 years for men ...

With the newest CBO estimate predicting the national debt will hit $52 trillion by 2035, Congress has two feasible options to ...