The first Social Security checks with 2025's 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) have gone out, with more coming in the ...

The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for 2025 is a 2.5% increase. That means the monthly benefits checks ...

Social Security's 2025 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) took effect in January. Benefits will increase 2.5% this year, the ...

As we step into 2025, you may be setting financial goals. While you're at it, you should also keep tabs on the Social ...

The Social Security COLA increase for 2025 is finally here, and so is your boosted benefits check. Here's when you can expect it. Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web ...

Technically speaking, this is the 2024 COLA, as it goes into effect in December 2024. However, because Social Security is ...

Social Security benefits have gone up 2.5% in 2025, thanks to the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA). It's a smaller increase than the 3.2% bump that recipients saw in 2024, reflecting ...

“Social Security benefits and SSI [Supplemental Security Income] payments will increase in 2025 ... will see a 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) beginning in January 2025.

For 2024, the Social Security COLA was 3.2%. The Social Security Administration ... subject to Social Security tax (taxable maximum) will increase from $168,600 to $176,100. However, the full ...

The maximum amount available to retirees who stop working at the Full Retirement Age - currently 67 years old - is $4,018. If you take your benefits at the earliest possible age of 62, your maximum ...

The updates include a higher cost-of-living adjustment, revisions to the earnings test thresholds, and increases in maximum benefits.

The COLA used for the following Social Security benefits for 2025 would have been based on the percentage increase in the CPI-W from the third quarter of 2024. This formula tracks price changes on ...