Tag: cost of living

USA social security card overflowing with cash to illustrate budget crisis

But over the last four years, the COLA has fully protected retirees. The inflation data for August gives us a pretty good idea about the likely magnitude of Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2025.  This automatic indexing of benefits to keep up with rising prices – always a wonderful feature of our Social Security…

Miniature workers and three pile of coins

The current index is a good compromise. It’s “Social Security COLA-speculation” season, and with it comes the annual controversy about whether the government is using the right index to adjust benefits.  I would argue that the current index is good enough; it can easily be viewed as a compromise between the two major alternatives –…