Social Security's Early 2026 Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Projection Is In -- and It's a Good News/Bad News Scenario for Retirees
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Social Security COLA expected to drop significantly in 2026
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Bad News for Social Security Retirees: 2025 COLA Fails to Keep Up
Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) mechanism, designed to safeguard the buying power of benefits against inflation, faces challenges as inflation trends upward. The COLA for 2025, based on inflation data from the third quarter of 2024,
Social Security Retirees Just Got Bad News About the 2025 Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA)
The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) applied to Social Security payments in any given year is based on CPI-W inflation from the third quarter of the previous year. In that sense, COLAs are a reimbursement mechanism to compensate retirees for the buying power benefits lost in the previous year.
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Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Projected To Shrink Further in 2026
The Senior Citizens League (TSCL), a nonpartisan senior group, recently released their monthly COLA estimate, predicting that ...
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