Many older Americans today would not be able to get by without Social Security. The Federal Reserve puts median retirement ...

Anyone with a memory of 1985 can tell you how much things have changed over the past 40 years: Phones were the size of bricks, listening to music in a car meant carrying cassette tapes, and the ...

Instead, SSA uses another figure -- the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). This metric tracks the changes in prices paid by urban wage earners and clerical ...

Netflix was still mailing out DVDs, MySpace was the most popular social media platform, and many phone plans still charged per text sent or received. Another thing that's changed in the past two ...

The 2026 COLA is on pace to underestimate the actual increase in the cost of living for retired workers Social Security's COLAs are based on a subset of the Consumer Price Index ... Index for Urban ...

Now, there's an estimate for 2026's Social Security COLA on the table ... based on data from the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). When the CPI-W rises ...

As of January, the average monthly retirement benefit for retired workers was just $1,979 -- only around $23,750 per year. If you boost that by 2.5%, it only becomes $2,028.48, or roughly $24,340 ...

The CPI-E has increased faster than the CPI-W in recent years. The table shows the actual COLA in 2024 and 2025, which equals the percent increase in CPI-W inflation during the third quarter of ...

Social Security is a valuable source of income for tens of millions of retired workers, disabled workers, spouses of workers, and more. And with pensions declining in popularity in recent years ...