{"id":33914,"date":"2025-01-21T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/?p=33914"},"modified":"2025-01-21T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T22:00:00","slug":"2026-cola-prediction-update-social-security-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/2026-cola-prediction-update-social-security-check\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 COLA prediction update for Social Security & SSI payments in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

By January 22, 2025, all Social Security<\/strong> and SSI recipients<\/strong> will have benefited from the 2025 COLA increase<\/strong>. However, it is time to start preparing for the Cost-of-Living Adjustment in 2026. The most reliable experts to calculate this annual boost are working for the Senior Citizens League<\/strong>. Year after year, they make the most accurate projections.<\/p>\n

According to the Senior Citizens League’s Cost-of-Living Adjustment model, the 2026 COLA increase<\/strong> will be about 2.1%<\/strong>. Bear in mind that TSCL’s model is based on the information provided by the Bureau of Labour and Statistics. The key information to work out the Cost-of-Living Adjustment is the CPI-W (Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers ).<\/p>\n

Is the Social Security 2026 COLA prediction lower than in 2025?<\/h2>\n

For your information, the 2025 COLA increase was 2.5%<\/strong>. Therefore, if inflation continues cooling down there could be a lower-than-average Cost-of-Living Adjustment in 2026.<\/p>\n

That means the current prediction the Senior Citizens League has made for 2026 is 0.4% lower than in 2025.<\/strong> Bear in mind that the CPI-W for December 2024 was 2.8%.<\/p>\n

If you are a new Social Security<\/strong> recipient, you may not know that the highest COLA<\/strong> in recent years was back in 2023<\/strong>. It reached a staggering 8.7% so millions of American retirees took advantage of a large increase.<\/p>\n

When will Social Security confirm the 2026 COLA increase?<\/h2>\n

The Social Security Administration<\/strong> (SSA) usually releases the new Cost-of-Living Adjustment increase in October<\/strong>. However, it depends on the year, it may be in mid-October or a little earlier.<\/p>\n

The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its annual schedule on its website. This schedule of Releases for the Consumer Price Index confirms that the CPI-W for September will be unveiled on October 15, 2025.<\/strong> So, Oct. 15 will be when SSA releases the new COLA for 2026 too.<\/p>\n

Take into account that Social Security uses the CPI-W figure from the third quarters in the current and previous year. By comparing both percentage, SSA can work out the 2026 COLA increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By January 22, 2025, all Social Security and SSI recipients will have benefited from the 2025 COLA increase. However, it is time to start preparing for the Cost-of-Living Adjustment in 2026. The most reliable experts to calculate this annual boost are working for the Senior Citizens League. Year after year, they make the most accurate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"Discover the most recent update of the 2026 COLA prediction for Social Security retirement, SSDI, and SSI benefits in the United States","format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"hide","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"d\/m\/Y H:i","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"no-crop","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54,51,37],"class_list":["post-33914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-cola","tag-payment","tag-social-security"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futbolete.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}