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And the fact that the full-year CPI-W in 2024 increased more than the 2.5% COLA in 2025 is even worse news. It means Social Security will have a little less spending power this year. How retired ...
The percent increase then becomes the COLA in the following year. For instance, the CPI-W increased 2.5% in the third quarter of 2024, which means Social Security benefits will get a 2.5% COLA in ...
In 2024, Social Security recipients received a 3.2% adjustment. The average retired worker benefit lands at roughly $1,900 per month, so that amounts to a raise of just over $60 per month.
Image source: Getty Images. Next year's raise may be considerably lower than 2024's. In 2024, Social Security recipients saw their benefits rise 3.2%. Next year's COLA is shaping up to be much ...
Data source: Social Security Administration. As shown above, CPI-E inflation averaged 3.4% through the first eight months of 2024. That is three-tenths of a percent above the average CPI-W reading.
With inflation improving, the nonpartisan Senior Citizens League (TSCL) projects the Social Security COLA for 2025 at 2.5% as of September, revised from its higher prediction of 2.57% in August.
In 2023, seniors on Social Security received a whopping 8.7% COLA-- the largest to arrive in decades. But this year's COLA was a relative disappointment at just 3.2%. A person holding a document ...
TSCL's latest prediction says the 2025 COLA will be 2.63%. That would be the smallest COLA in the past few years, and 1.14 percentage points lower than the average since the CPI-W became the ...