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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.
Here's what Social Security's 2025 COLA means for your monthly benefit. Throughout the 2010s, beneficiaries had little to look forward to. This decade featured the only three years over the last ...
Millions of retired workers, their spouses, and other Social Security recipients are concerned about the 2025 cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA.
Here's the big picture: While the 2.5% COLA in 2025 is the smallest increase in Social Security benefits in four years -- 3.2% in 2024, 8.7% in 2023, and 5.9% in 2022 -- that means prices across ...
In fact, next year's 2.5% bump is higher than the 2010's average COLA of 1.4%, and is similar to the average since 1983 (after the soaring inflation of the preceding decade). What it means for ...
A 2.5% COLA. Social Security's official 2025 COLA is 2.5%, which is quite a bit lower than the 3.2% COLA seniors received at the start of 2024. However, it's important to give that COLA some context.
As for what this means in more relatable terms, in that this year's average monthly Social Security payment stands at $1,907, a 2.63% increase would put 2025's average monthly benefit somewhere ...
At 2.5%, the 2025 COLA is below average and the lowest since the 1.3% COLA in 2021. The good news: The 2025 COLA could be lower. The could-be-better news: The 2025 COLA could also be higher.