In 2025, benefits got a 2.5% COLA. Many older Americans are hoping that 2026's COLA will be larger, or at the very least, the ...

For the first time in 90 years, the average monthly check for retired workers has surpassed a psychologically important level ...

Among other changes, the act would increase the benefit for Social Security recipients by $2,400 a year and keep the program fully funded for the next 75 years.

Although Donald Trump didn't hold up his end of the bargain by eliminating the taxation of benefits, select retirees are ...

Social Security recipients’ monthly checks could be higher than originally thought next year with the cost-of-living ...

That said, there have been instances where the Social Security COLA was the same in two close but nonconsecutive years. This occurred in 1993 and 1995, when the benefits increase was 2.6%.

That's not lost on most seniors, and it's led a surprising number of 62-year-olds to claim their benefits as soon as possible this year instead of waiting to maximize their benefits at age 70.

Boosting Benefits and COLAs for Seniors Act, a bill proposed by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat, aims to give higher monthly checks to seniors if passed.

Millions of older Americans get the bulk of their retirement income from Social Security. As a result, many seniors are eager to know what next year’s cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, will look ...

A program as popular and essential as Social Security tends to be talked about a lot — in social circles, on the internet, ...

Take Ed and Edna who have other income of $200,000 and Social Security benefits for 2025 of $108,000. In this example, 85% of these benefits are included in taxable income or $91,800.