A lot has changed over the past 20 years. In 2005, the iPhone didn't exist, YouTube was just starting, and people listened to ...

Tens of millions of Americans rely on Social Security benefits for a substantial portion of their retirement income. Not only ...

The Social Security program undergoes a series of revisions each year to ensure benefit payments keep pace with inflation and ...

Social Security beneficiaries receive annual cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) based on how CPI-W inflation changes in the third quarter. CPI-W inflation has reaccelerated in every month since ...

The nonpartisan advocacy group The Senior Citizens League predicts the 2026 COLA will be 2.1%, based on data from the Bureau ...

The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W): This index is used to determine the annual cost of living adjustments to Social Security benefits and to adjust ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the Consumer Price Index rose 2.9% in December from year-ago levels, an uptick from November’s 2.7% rate. Year-over-year core CPI (which excludes ...

The December CPI report, due Wednesday, is predicted to show another month of sticky inflation. Gas, food, vehicle, and shelter costs are among the areas believed to have kept the CPI elevated.

tied to a subset of the Consumer Price Index known as the CPI-W, which tracks the price of goods and services across the economy. Here is how it works: The CPI-W from the third quarter of the ...