Social Security 2026 COLA increase, yet rising Medicare premiums may cut the real gains for millions of retirees.

The biggest announcement of the year is within sight, but it's likely to leave Social Security's more than 70 million ...

A key expense for most retirees threatens to gobble up some or all of their Social Security "raise" in the upcoming year.

Even in the best-case scenario, retired workers may be disappointed with Social Security's 2026 cost-of-living adjustment ...

Social Security recipients now have the second of three data points that will determine their cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2026.A key gauge for inflation — the Consumer Price Index for ...

Social Security benefits increase each year to keep up with rising prices. This yearly boost is called the Cost-of-Living Adjustment, or COLA. For 2026, For 2026, experts expect the COLA to increase ...

For millions of retirees who depend on Social Security, October usually brings one of the most anticipated announcements of the year, the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) that dete ...

Retirees must wait another five and a half weeks (give or take a few days) for the Social Security Administration (SSA) to ...

Analysts forecast a 2.8% Social Security COLA in 2026. It may not cover expected Medicare premiums, putting seniors more in a ...

According to the report, the best-case scenario for 2026 would be a COLA of 3%. That would assume that inflation is on the higher side, allowing the program to collect more in revenue as wages ...

With inflation slowing in the first half of 2025, many assumed the 2026 Social Security COLA would shrink from this year. But now, the 2026 COLA is shaping up to be higher than expected, as inflation ...