Tag: CPI-W

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 –…