The cost of living adjustment, or COLA, is a key concept to know for understanding Social Security benefits.
Inflation has cooled considerably after hitting a 40-year high of 9.1% in June 2022. The Federal Reserve engineered a flurry of rate hikes that have helped to drive down inflation, which stood at2.5% on an annual basis in August— its lowest in three years. Inflation is expected to contin...
Starting in January 2025,Social Securityrecipients will get a pay raise. Beneficiaries will see a 2.5% increase as a cost of living adjustment, also known asCOLA. Over the past decade, the COLA has averaged around 2.6%. Asinflationhas cooled, the 2025 COLA of 2.5% is less than 202...
The reason a COLA that could run lower than the current rate of inflation comes down to how the figure is calculated. First, the Social Security Administration relies on an inflation index that's slightly different than the main CPI that the Federal Reserve and economists use to gauge pricing ...
getting as specific as peanut butter or stationery. The Social Security Administration (SSA) uses a subset of CPI to determine its annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), while the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) even uses CPI to inform adjustments to federal tax brackets — making the index ...
The standard monthly premium for Medicare Part B is $185 for 2025. The annual Part B deductible is $257 for 2025.3 By law, Medicare must collect a portion of its Part B costs from beneficiaries. Because low COLA increases may limit the share of the costs offset by the standard premium, ...
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