Social Security, COLA

Why your next Social Security COLA could change if Kamala Harris wins in November
Your future Social Security benefit increases could be affected by which candidate wins the upcoming presidential election.
Disappointed in Your 2025 Social Security COLA? Here's Why You Shouldn't Be.
On Oct. 10, the Social Security Administration (SSA) dropped a bombshell by announcing that monthly benefits would be rising by 2.5% in 2025. That's a considerably lower cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, than 2024's 3.2% increase. And it's also the smallest Social Security COLA to arrive since 2021 when benefits rose by just 1.3%.
What the New Social Security COLA Increase Means for You
Now that the 2025 COLA increase has been announced by the Social Security Administration, here's what you need to know.
Smaller Social Security COLA for 2025: What Retirees Need to Know
Each year, Social Security recipients receive a cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, designed to help offset the impact of inflation on their benefits.
How Does the 2025 Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Stack Up to the Last 25 Years?
Every October, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announces how much more seniors will receive from the government program the next year due to inflation. The COLA for 2025 will be 2.5%, which is a big step down from the increases received for the last three years.
How the 2025 Social Security COLA compares to recent years
A recent survey from the Motley Fool shows 50% of retirees have considered going back to work to make ends meet.
2025 Social Security COLA: Your top 5 questions, answered
The extent to which your monthly Social Security payments will increase in 2025 will hinge on a few factors. These include an official COLA number, whether you're enrolled in Medicare, and whether the cost of Part B rises in 2025.
Backgrounder
Social Security issues 2.5% COLA increase. Here’s why it keeps falling.
Seniors will see a more modest increase in their benefits in 2025 than in recent years as inflation cools off.
Jill On Money: Social security alert — COLA 2025
With the 2025 COLA announcement, the average Social Security check for individual retirees will increase from $1,927 per month to $1,976
Donald Trump ad distorts Kamala Harris’ stance on Social Security taxes
Rather, she has proposed lifting the payroll income tax cap beyond which the government stops taxing workers. The people who would pay higher taxes under Harris’ proposal are neither older nor struggling.
Trump and Harris pledged to save Social Security. Here’s what they’ll do.
Vice President Harris and former President Trump have both vowed to protect Social Security, but experts say both of their campaign platforms fall short of specific solutions for a program that faces threats to funding in roughly a decade.
Here’s how the Social Security COLA could change if Kamala Harris wins the election, according to experts
Neither campaign has focused on reforms to Social Security that would increase benefits for seniors, ten percent of which ...
50% of Retirees May Return to Work Because of an Insufficient 2025 Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA)
In reality, many older American end up retiring on Social Security alone. And people in that boat unfortunately risk a world ...