President Trump's federal hiring freeze and decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer raise ...

Social Security COLAs are supposed to help your checks maintain their buying power. Higher COLAs mean higher inflation.

Every year, Social Security is eligible for a COLA. When inflation remains flat, Social Security benefits remain flat. When ...

Estimates for Social Security’s Cost of Living Adjustment – the automatic raise beneficiaries typically receive at the start of the new year – continues to tick upwards.

As such, the way inflation trends in August will have a huge impact on next year's Social Security raise. Similarly, in ...

Social Security's cost-of-living adjustment could rise 2.7%. But Medicare Part B premiums are set to rise even more, eating ...

There's also another key change on the way that will affect many retirees but isn't a Social Security change per se.

Her focus is reporting on Social Security, other government benefits and personal finance. She has previously extensively ...

TheStreet's Maurie Backman joins Broadcast Retirement Network host Jeffrey Snyder to talk about the annual increase.

Social Security COLAs are based on third-quarter changes to the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical ...

The trouble began in 2021, when Americans found themselves flush with cash from stimulus policies at a time when supply ...

There are millions of older Americans today who rely on Social Security to pay their bills in retirement. Granted, some ...