A 2.5% Social Security cost-of-living adjustment is the lowest increase to benefits since 2021. To increase those checks, retirees may consider two money moves.

In a Letter to the Editor, a Village of Lynnhaven resident takes issue with Villagers complaining about rising costs. He points out that these same complainers have been seeing COLA increases in ...

It has been my custom for most of the past 27 years to write a year-end column that summarizes the Social Security updates scheduled to take place the following year. I already discussed some of ...

For retirees, healthcare expenses are unavoidable and increasingly unaffordable. Fidelity Research says a 65-year-old ...

Millions of Americans are set to receive their Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments this ...

The Social Security Administration recently released its December 2024 Monthly Statistical Snapshot, which shows the effect ...

Social Security benefits form the bedrock of income for millions of Americans—and those who claim Supplemental Security ...

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

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

If you receive Social Security benefits, your payments are getting bigger this year. That’s because you’re getting a Cost of ...

The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) applied to Social Security payments in any given year is based on CPI-W inflation from ...

those discrepancies tend to balance out over time because CPI-W inflation in some years falls below the COLA applied to Social Security in the next year. That actually happened with the 2022 and ...