Social security benefits to increase in 2023

This morning the Social Security Administration confirmed that the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2025 will be 2.5%. The annual adjustment helps the payments for more than 72 million Americans, the vast majority of them retired, keep pace with rising prices. Because inflation has largely abated from its peak in recent years, the 2025 COLA is smaller than it has been lately. It's 0.7 percentage points less than the 2024 COLA, which was 3.2%. The average Social Security retir