Social Security's 2025 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) took effect in January. Benefits will increase 2.5% this year, the ...

COLAs are intended to maintain the purchasing power of Social Security benefits amidst inflation. The COLA is calculated ...

Amidst ongoing economic uncertainty and a volatile presidential election, you may be concerned that another period of ...

The SSA measures that inflation using the changes in the third-quarter averages of the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) from one year to the next.

The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for 2025 is a 2.5% increase. That means the monthly benefits checks ...

An estimated 72.5 million Social Security recipients will benefit from a 2.5 percent increase in their payments this year thanks to the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA).

The state minimum wage is tied to the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W) for urban wage earners and clerical workers over the ...

Many retirees look forward to Social Security's annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), which for 2025 is 2.5%. The COLA ...

Ohio's minimum wage will rise to $10.70/hr for non-tipped workers and $5.35/hr for tipped ones in 2025, per the state ...

This is based on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), which was up 3.6% year over year in May 2023. The Social Security cost of living adjustment (COLA ...

L&I calculates the minimum wage for the coming year using the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). L&I compares the CPI-W ...