It took 40 years for Congress to pass a law to boost Social Security for public workers. Now, SSA says they must wait at ...

Social Security benefits received a 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2025, but for many retirees, this is not enough ...

Fact checked by Vikki Velasquez At age 65, many retirees find themselves relying on a combination of Social Security benefits ...

What's more, surveys have shown that Social Security checks are necessary for seniors to make ends meet. A poll from ...

The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for 2025 is the lowest since the post-Covid inflation spike. Yet retirees still ...

One positive aspect of Social Security is that the program is set up to adapt to economic changes. Each year, for example, ...

With the latest 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in effect, the average benefit has climbed to $1,976 per month. It's ...

Nearly 72.88 million Americans rely on Social Security for monthly income. The vast majority, about 65.5 million, collect ...

The maximum monthly SSI benefit for 2025 is $967 for an individual and $1,450 for a couple, compared to $943 and $1,415, ...

Social Security's cost-of-living adjustment is the mechanism that allows the Social Security Administration (SSA) to adjust benefits on a near-annual basis to account for the effects of inflation.

Forget about COLAs for a minute -- because Social Security itself has some big problems. More money is being paid out of its ...

Considering how important Social Security is to the financial well-being of our nation's aging workforce, no announcement looms larger for beneficiaries than the annual cost-of-living adjustment ...