This data-driven story gives a detailed breakdown of Americans’ Social Security benefits, plus the Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLAs) that the government uses to help them keep pace with inflation.

Did you create your Social Security online account before September 18, 2021? Do you sign in to access your benefits with a “my Social Security” account? If so, it’s essential that you go online and ...

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Established in 1992, The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) is one of the nation’s largest non-partisan senior organizations. We are here to ensure that seniors receive the benefits they’ve earned. To ...

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When the Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley estimated that the program is “the difference between dignity and poverty” for about half of seniors in a May 2024 press release, he may have ...

TSCL predicts that Social Security’s 2027 Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) will be 3.8 percent, unchanged from last month and 1.0 percentage points higher than this year’s COLA of 2.8%. If TSCL’s ...

The TSCL Social Security cost of living adjustment (COLA) model predicts that the COLA for 2025 will be 2.5%, based on a decline from 2.9% to 2.5% in consumer price data. A COLA of 2.5% would raise ...

So far this year, Congress has been busy introducing new legislation to improve Americans’ Social Security benefits. Two bills, the Social Security Expansion Act and the Senior Citizens Tax ...

Social Security’s trust fund is set to deplete a year earlier than previously estimated, in 2032, not in 2033, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Unless Congress passes ...

Based on the latest CPI data, released this morning, TSCL predicts that Social Security’s 2027 Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) will be 3.9%, or 1.1 percentage points higher than this year’s COLA of 2 ...

TSCL predicts that Social Security’s 2027 Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) will be 3.8%, or 1.0 percentage point higher than this year’s COLA of 2.8%. This prediction is based on new CPI data released ...