Social Security COLA is based on inflation during July, August, and September. The Board of Trustees files a report with ...

The anticipated Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for Social Security in 2026 is projected to fall below the historical ...

Both of those numbers are above recent forecasts from the Senior Citizen's League and independent analyst Mary Johnson. Both ...

The annual COLA is appreciated, but it hasn't always kept up with inflation enough to reasonably cancel it out. According to ...

The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) is an index of the cost of a basket of market goods for primarily blue-collar wage workers.

The CPI-W is inherently flawed Social Security's COLA has been determined by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, or CPI-W, since 1975.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) regularly measures the change in the prices paid by consumers in the U.S. for a representative basket of goods and services.

CPI-W numbers control the Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment. New CPI-W numbers changed the future projections for the COLA. Retirees should know COLAs are not actually keeping up with ...

How is annual COLA calculated? The 2022 CPI-W rate for the third quarter of the year was 291.901, which is a big jump from 2021 which was 268.421.

A New COLA Estimate Revealed, which provides Social Security beneficiaries with a preview ahead of potential benefit ...

The CPI-W represents the prices of a basket of goods and thus is used to measure how inflation has changed across a certain period of time - in this case, annually.

What kind of economic metric can be called “a moral and economic disaster,” “unconscionable,” and “a fraudulent premise”? A chained Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers ...