The official announcement for next year's adjustment won't come until October, but there are already predictions around what the 2026 COLA might look like. Right now, beneficiaries are on track to ...

Yet one buffer for the effects of inflation — the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, — may be lower next year. As the rate of inflation moderates, the Social Security COLA for ...

Millions of seniors benefit from the Social Security cost ... budgets before the COLA takes effect. In many ways, we're in uncharted territory right now. So history may or may not be helpful ...

2011 and 2016 and the smallest positive COLA in history (0.3%) being registered in 2017. Social Security's 52 million retired workers are hoping for an encore that will lead to a fifth-consecutive ...