Social Security is not designed to be your only source of financial support in retirement. That's why personal savings are ...

Now, there's an estimate for 2026's Social Security COLA on the table ... based on data from the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). When the CPI-W rises ...

On Wednesday, April 9, 2025, the Social Security Administration (SSA) will begin issuing payments that include the 2.5% Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA), which went into effect in January 2025.

The increases are based on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), which is arguably the wrong inflation measure to use. That index is based on changes in the ...

And the COLA is computed using the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), a subset of the CPI that tracks the expenses of a narrower slice of American households ...

But over the last 50 years, the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) has served as the annual inflationary tether for Social Security. The CPI-W has north of ...

For most Americans, Social Security provides indispensable monthly income they'd struggle to make do without. In each of the ...

It uses the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) to determine how much the COLA will be. Social Security compares inflation data from the CPI-W during the ...

A version of the CPI for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W) is used by the BLS to calculate the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) annual increase in Social Security benefits meant to ...