By now, all seniors on Social Security should have gotten their first checks for 2025. With the latest 2.5% cost-of-living ...

Nearly 68 million Americans receive Social Security benefits each month. Here are three myths that can cause confusion and ...

The nonpartisan advocacy group The Senior Citizens League predicts the 2026 COLA will be 2.1%, based on data from the Bureau ...

The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment officially goes into effect in December of each year -- so technically speaking ...

Reviewed by Robert C. Kelly Fact checked by Daniel Rathburn Consumer Price Index (CPI) vs. Producer Price Index (PPI): An ...

tied to a subset of the Consumer Price Index known as the CPI-W, which tracks the price of goods and services across the economy. Here is how it works: The CPI-W from the third quarter of the ...

The BLS also publishes the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). The CPI-W covers 29% of the U.S. population living in households with income derived ...

The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W): This index is used to determine the annual cost of living adjustments to Social Security benefits and to adjust ...

A second large survey is the CPI-W, which is a monthly accounting of the average change in the prices that urban wages earners and clerical workers pay for a market basket of consumer goods and ...

Inflation is a word that's in the news frequently, and it's a word that makes people nervous. When prices for goods like food, clothing, and gasoline are on the rise, consumers fear that the ...