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 ...

This Friday, January 31, SSI payments will be made to claimants across the U.S. from the Social Security Administration (SSA) ...

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 ...

It’s not uncommon for seniors on Social Security to collect those benefits for two decades or longer. But in that long a time ...

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