Social Security benefits are eligible for a cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, each year. The purpose of COLAs is to help ...

Some Social Security recipients will get their first boosted payments of 2026 this week.

Earnings limits, benefit caps, and work credits are all shifting next year—and some changes affect people not even collecting ...

It has been my custom for most of the past 28 years to write a year-end column summarizing the Social Security updates ...

A new proposal would cap annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustments for top earnings beneficiaries, potentially ...

From a 2.8% Social Security COLA to higher Medicare premiums and new drug-price caps, here’s what’s changing in 2026 — and why the future of these programs is under pressure.

In 2025, a single Social Security work credit is worth $1,810. In 2026, the value of a work credit is rising to $1,890. This ...

Almost every year since the Social Security Act was passed in 1935, there have been amendments to that original law.

Social Security beneficiaries receiving payments in 2026 can expect about $56 more every month, a new tax deduction that will lower seniors' taxes, and modernization updates to the agency.

Social Security is a popular but expensive program. With the trust fund facing depletion in just a few years, experts have suggested different ways to cut costs and make the program more sustainable, ...

The changes range from an increase in work credit requirements to a relatively modest cost-of-living adjustment.