The Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) is a crucial mechanism applied annually by Social Security to ensure beneficiaries' payments keep pace with rising prices.

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 ...

The Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) is crucial for over 73 million Americans, ensuring benefits keep pace ...

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

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

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It looks like actions by the Trump administration will result in some level of tariffs on most countries. Many economists ...

Estimates point to President Donald Trump's tariff and trade policies having a tangible impact on Social Security benefits ...

After 2034, Social Security would only have enough funds to cover 81% of benefits. After 2033, Medicare’s hospital insurance trust fund would only be able to pay 89% of costs.

The combined trust funds for Social Security are projected to run out in 2034, a year earlier than previously predicted, a board of trustees of the program’s accounts said in a new report ...

Social Security will not be able to fully pay monthly benefits to tens of millions of retirees and people with disabilities in 2034 if lawmakers don’t act to address the program’s pending ...

Trustees of the Social Security trust fund predict the fund will be exhausted in eight years. Unless Congress acts, Social Security payments will automatically drop by 23% at that time.