Here's Biggest Problem With Social Security's 2025 COLA

The 2025 Social Security COLA Is a Double-Edged Sword for Retirees. Here's What You Should Know
Inflation is particularly noticeable for people on fixed incomes, like many who receive Social Security. To help offset this, Social Security applies a COLA. For 2025, the COLA will be 2.5%, and while I'm sure retirees appreciate any increase in benefits, many aren't jumping for joy at the amount.
3 Social Security COLA Dates To Know for 2025
The Social Security Administration (SSA) recently announced that beneficiaries will get a 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2025. The new adjustment will boost the average retirement check
Jill On Money: Social security alert — COLA 2025
With the 2025 COLA announcement, the average Social Security check for individual retirees will increase from $1,927 per month to $1,976
Here's the Biggest Problem With Social Security's 2025 COLA
There's perhaps no more important announcement in the context of Social Security than each year's cost-of-living adjustment (COLA). Many seniors rely on Social Security to provide a large chunk of their retirement income.
Crunching the numbers: Social Security COLA for 2025
As I’m sure you already heard, all 68 million Social Security beneficiaries’ checks are going up 2.5% in 2025. I always dread mentioning COLAs in this column because every single time I do, I am flooded with emails from readers complaining that the increase is not enough.
This 2025 Social Security COLA Phenomenon Hasn't Happened In Decades
In 2025, the COLA will be 2.5%, down from 3.2% in 2024 and 8.7% in 2023 and 5.9% in 2022. However, this string of four COLAs still tied a record.
Disappointed in Your 2025 Social Security COLA? Here's Why You Shouldn't Be.
On Oct. 10, the Social Security Administration (SSA) dropped a bombshell by announcing that monthly benefits would be rising by 2.5% in 2025. That's a considerably lower cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, than 2024's 3.2% increase. And it's also the smallest Social Security COLA to arrive since 2021 when benefits rose by just 1.3%.
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Social Security Announces 2.5% Benefit Increase for 2025, Boosting Payments for Over 72 Million Americans
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has announced a 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2025, designed to counter inflation and rising living costs.
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Social Security sets its 2025 COLA increase at 2.5%. Here's how it will change your benefits.
The Social Security Administration set its 2025 cost-of-living adjustment at 2.5%, the smallest annual COLA hike since 2021. Although inflation has eased from its pandemic-era heights, some ...
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The 2025 Social Security COLA Is 2.5%: See What That Means for Your Social Security Payments
Your Social Security benefits aren’t likely to cover all of your expenses in retirement, but a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) can help offset some of the pain associated with inflation.
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Don't want to worry about a 2025 Social Security COLA? Here's what to do.
How much will Social Security benefits rise in the new year? That's a big question on a lot of people's minds as we get closed to nailing down an official 2025 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA).
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Social Security will announce the 2025 COLA within days. Here's what to expect.
The roughly 70 million people who receive Social Security payments will soon learn how much they'll receive in their 2025 benefit checks, with the program's annual cost-of-living adjustment ...