The Social Security COLA, or cost-of-living adjustment, is the process by which the Social Security Administration increases benefits to keep up with rising costs over time. While the general idea of ...

Mary Johnson, an independent Social Security analyst, said: "COLA doesn't keep pace with real inflation. The year-over-year ...

Cost-of-living adjustments have been something of a mixed bag for retirees over the last 16 years. The 2010s were a period of ...

But since that's a mouthful, everyone calls it the CPI-W. The CPI-W tracks the cost of a basket of goods reflecting the typical purchases of someone working in or near a city. The Social Security ...

Many seniors on Social Security were disappointed to learn that their monthly benefits would only be increasing by 2.5% in ...

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 Consumer Price Index report released early Wednesday showed a lower-than-expected increase in inflation for the month of ...

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