For retirees, healthcare expenses are unavoidable and increasingly unaffordable. Fidelity Research says a 65-year-old ...

For retirees, healthcare expenses are unavoidable and increasingly unaffordable. Fidelity Research says a 65-year-old ...

If you collect Social Security payments, you may be pleasantly surprised when you get your first direct deposit or your first ...

This is intended to help seniors and other Social Security recipients keep up with inflation and is based on Consumer Price ...

If you receive Social Security benefits, your payments are getting bigger this year. That’s because you’re getting a Cost of ...

Social Security beneficiaries have received annual cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) tied to a subset of the Consumer Price ...

The Senior Citizens League (TSCL), a nonpartisan senior group, recently released their monthly COLA estimate, predicting that ...

The South Dakota Public Schools Coalition is worried the 1.25% budget increase for education goes against South Dakota ...

So did the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), the inflation metric used to calculate the COLA. Even worse, the costs of some items that affect many retirees ...

Social Security's COLAs are determined based on CPI-W inflation, which has reaccelerated since the 2025 pay increase was calculated. Social Security benefits are arguably on track to lose buying ...

This adjustment is part of the annual Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA), which is calculated using the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) from the Department ...

Current law provides that the minimum wage in California may increase each year by 3.5% or by the rate of change in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers or CPI-W ...