The annual COLA is appreciated, but it hasn't always kept up with inflation enough to reasonably cancel it out. According to ...

In 2025, benefits got a 2.5% COLA. Many older Americans are hoping that 2026's COLA will be larger, or at the very least, the ...

The Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) is crucial for over 73 million Americans, ensuring benefits keep pace ...

The Social Security program, a financial cornerstone for millions of Americans since 1935, relies on annual cost-of-living ...

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) regularly measures the change in the prices paid by consumers in the U.S. for a representative basket of goods and services.

Getting smarter: Fewer credit card users are making this expensive mistake, report says The CPI-W is inherently flawed. Social Security's COLA has been determined by the Consumer Price Index for ...

Consumer Price Index for Americans 62 years of age and older (R-CPI-E): This index re-weights prices from the CPI-U data to track spending for households with at least one consumer age 62 or older.

Opponents of indexing Social Security to the chained CPI often call for using the experimental Consumer Price Index for the Elderly (CPI-E), an alternate index targeted toward the elderly population.

The Congressional Research Service issued a report on the hypothetical use of the CPI-E, or the consumer price index for the elderly, to calculate annual inflation adjustments for Social Security ...

The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) is a consumer price index subset that measures price changes for hourly or clerical workers.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI), sometimes called the cost-of-living index, measures the average change in prices that typical American wage earners pay for basic goods and services, such as food ...