Disappointed in Your 2025 Social Security COLA? Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Be.
On Oct. 10, the Social Security Administration (SSA) dropped a bombshell by announcing that monthly benefits would be rising by 2.5% in 2025. That’s a considerably lower cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, than 2024’s 3.2% increase. And it’s also the smallest Social Security COLA to arrive since 2021 when benefits rose by just 1.3%. But while […]
