Although retired-worker benefits are set to make history in 2026, the latest COLA forecast is anything but reassuring.

The latest Cost of Living Adjustment prediction shows Social Security recipients could be in for another year of a small ...

In a perfect world, the COLAs and inflation would increase in lockstep so that your Social Security checks' buying power ...

Each year, the Social Security Administration (SSA) adjusts the amount of money that recipients receive in benefits, helping ...

Social Security is an important piece of the retirement puzzle, particularly for middle-class retirees who count on the ...

It is true that improper payments have been made, including some to dead people. But how big of a problem is Social Security ...

The Senior Citizens League, which advocates on issues affecting seniors, released its latest projection for the 2026 Social ...

Social Security's cost-of-living adjustment is the mechanism that allows the Social ... But over the last four years, COLAs came in at 5.9% in 2022, a four-decade high of 8.7% in 2023, 3.2% in 2024, ...

More to the point: Social Security's fiscal problems aren't the result of fraudulent payments to people who are already dead. It is not benefits for the dead, but rather payments to the living ...

A July 2024 report from Social Security's inspector general stated that from fiscal years 2015 through 2022, the agency paid ... payments were overpayments to living people. Part of the confusion ...

Social Security has lost 20% of its buying power since 2010, according to the Senior Citizens League (TSCL), and that trend seems likely to continue into 2025. Though it's a long way off ...