The 2026 Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) for Social Security has been set at 2.8%. See the new average payment amounts and ...

Quick Read Social Security benefits will increase by 2.8% in 2026 due to the Cost of Living Adjustment. The average Social ...

Those who work long, high-paying careers can receive thousands of dollars above the average Social Security benefit.

The cost-of-living adjustment figure for Social Security benefits typically would have been released Oct. 15 under normal circumstances. But the government shutdown triggered a delay. In 2025, more ...

Social Security recipients got some decent news at the end of October. The Social Security Administration announced that in ...

Social Security's most-anticipated reveal, the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), is less than two weeks away. Independent forecasts point to Social Security's 2026 COLA making history -- but ...

Though a history-making cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) would typically be something to celebrate, this is unlikely to be ...

A new proposal would cap annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustments for top earnings beneficiaries, potentially ...

Looking a bit further back, Social Security's 2.8% raise ties for the ninth-largest year-over-year increase since this century began. It trails the respective COLAs of 3.5% in 2001, 4.1% in 2006, 3.3% ...

Social Security benefits will get a boost for next year following the announcement of the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) on Friday, a debate is emerging over whether there is a more ...