COLA will likely be announced in October, but that hasn't stopped experts from giving their predictions. The 2025 COLA ...

Social Security beneficiaries are expected to receive the lowest cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) since 2021, according to ...

Based on the 2026 cost-of-living adjustment estimates from TSCL and Johnson, a 2.4% "raise" next year would increase the ...

The Senior Citizens League forecasts the 2026 Cost of Living Adjustment, or COLA, will be 2.4%, up from last month’s prediction of 2.3%. That’s 0.1 percentage points lower than 2025’s COLA of 2.5% and ...

The Senior Citizens League, a nonpartisan senior advocacy group, released its latest projection this week, estimating that ...

The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is based on third-quarter inflation data. The COLA formula uses data ...

“If our predictions come true and the 2026 COLA comes in at the lowest we’ve seen since 2021, seniors will face additional ...

Meanwhile, independent Social Security and Medicare policy analyst Mary Johnson, who retired from TSCL last year, increased her 2026 COLA prediction from 2.2% to 2.4% following the BLS inflation ...