This would normally be the most-exciting week of the year for Social Security recipients, but the federal government shutdown ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is required to announce the COLA by Nov. 1, but the data used to calculate it will ...

The September Consumer Price Index (CPI) report — a key ingredient in determining the annual Social Security cost-of-living ...

The department had originally paused work on the CPI report – which tracks a broad basket of goods and services for price ...

A Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report that will reveal the final figure needed to calculate the cost-of-living increase for military retirees, Social Security and VA disability benefit recipients, ...

The Administration was slated to announce 2026 COLA increases on Oct. 15 — but the date has been pushed back. Here's when the ...

The announcement was set for Oct. 15, however, the government shutdown delayed it. Here's what Oklahoma's Social Security ...

Supply-chain disruptions, pandemic unpredictability, and war have sent inflation to levels not seen since the early 1980s. Higher prices for essentials like food, housing, and gas are making life more ...

Happily, the next CPI report will be released despite the shutdown. The federal government agency tasked with releasing the inflation report has been called back to work. In other words, when it comes ...

A retiree using the 4% rule to guide withdrawals would have taken out $60,000 from a $1.5 million portfolio in the year 2000. By 2020, that withdrawal amount would have been right around $100,000. The ...

The average senior who retired in 1999 has lost nearly $5,000 in Social Security payments as a result of the CPI-W.

If you’ve been paying even passing attention to inflation—and it has been hard to ignore—you know that the latest inflation readings have been ugly. Through August 2022, the Consumer Price Index ...