Tag: Social Security benefits
The brief’s key findings are: In early 2020, many thought the COVID crisis – like the Great Recession – might force many workers to claim Social Security early. But the COVID economy turned out very different, with robust growth in the stock market and substantial unemployment relief. The analysis compared the relative impacts of t…
Highly likely that benefits will increase by more than 9 percent. The time has come to speculate about Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2023. Automatic indexing of benefits to keep up with rising prices is a wonderful feature of our Social Security program. Since the COLA first affects benefits paid after Jan. 1, Socia…
