The Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) is a crucial annual update to Social Security benefits, designed to help recipients keep ...

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While the CPI-E and CPI-W can vary considerably from year to year, over the last 15 years, they've produced similar ...

SSA bases its annual adjustment on the CPI. Additionally, anyone can use the index to calculate buying power by adjusting historical values to see how they stack up in today’s dollars.

Estimates by The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) based on consumer price data for March predict that the 2026 COLA will be 2.3%, which is 0.1 percentage points higher than last month’s prediction and ...