As the costs of goods continues to increase nationwide, Social Security benefit adjustments aren't expected to keep up.

The Social Security COLA, or cost-of-living adjustment, is the process by which the Social Security Administration increases benefits to keep up with rising costs over time. While the general idea of ...

Mary Johnson, an independent Social Security analyst, said: "COLA doesn't keep pace with real inflation. The year-over-year ...

President Trump returned the White House for a second term less than two months ago, but he has already signaled a dramatic ...

U.S. stock futures were higher on Wednesday morning after February's consumer-price-index report showed inflation rose 0.2% last month and 2.8% from a year ago. Excluding volatile food and energy ...

Analysts now expect the 2026 COLA to be 2.2%, down from 2.5% in 2025, according to forecasts from the Senior Citizens League and from independent Social Security and Medicare analyst Mary Johnson.

Prices for new vehicles slipped and the cost of used cars rose less rapidly in February. After vehicle prices rose ...

Another thing that's changed in the past two decades is the average monthly Social Security benefit. In 2005, it was $1,002, or just over $12,000 annually. Fast-forward 20 years, and the average ...

The Consumer Price Index Report is due out at 8:30 a.m. ET. Follow along for live updates on stocks, bonds and other markets, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite, ...

Follow along for live updates on stocks, bonds and other markets, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite, ahead of the CPI inflation report.

Cost-of-living adjustments have been something of a mixed bag for retirees over the last 16 years. The 2010s were a period of ...

They're calculated based on third-quarter data from the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). When there's an increase in that CPI-W data from one year to the next, ...