As seniors face rising prices for shelter and medical services, their annual benefit boosts aren't keeping up.

Millions of central government employees across the country are heartbroken. Numerous questions linger in their minds. What ...

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The 2026 Social Security COLA will be higher than the 2.5% increase retirees received this year. However, 94% of older ...

Inflation rose in September. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released CPI data during the government shutdown, which has ...

The Senior Citizens League is predicting a 2.7 percent COLA for 2026. While this would be a slight increase from the 2.5 ...

The report shows food items like instant coffee and beef are getting pricier. Instant coffee prices in September were about ...

This has been a unique year, with Social Security's cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) reveal delayed by nine days due to the ...

M/M vs. 0.4% consensus and +0.4% in August, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday. The ...

10.1 Three broad uses for the CPI were discussed in Chapter 4. In Chapter 5 it was explained that the Australian CPI, from the 13th series onwards, is intended as a measure of price inflation for the ...

Tens of millions of seniors may have to wait longer to find out how much their Social Security checks will rise next year. The Social Security Administration (SSA) is expected to announce the 2026 ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter who has covered the pandemic-era economy in hundreds of stories over the past two years. He's written hundreds of stories breaking down ...