After a delay due to the government shutdown that began on Oct. 1, Social Security announced its most anticipated change of the year: The 2026 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA). Beginning on Jan. 1, ...

Retirees now know how much their Social Security benefits will increase next year. The Social Security Administration (SSA) ...

People's budgets go through plenty of changes during their lives. For instance, people tend to cut down on travel and ...

After a long drought of government economic releases, we finally got a key update last week: the Consumer Price Index (CPI) ...

Two weeks before the U.S. Federal Reserve’s last meeting, with the federal government’s data spigot closed, Atlanta Fed staff ...

CPI Inflation Contributions from Goods and Services updates data on how much different types of goods and services contribute to changes in consumer price index (CPI) inflation. This tool is intended ...

Financial personality Caleb Hammer recently shared a gripe he has with "The Total Money Makeover" author Dave Ramsey's advice ...

The COLA boost is slightly better than earlier estimates, even if we're not talking about a lot of money. But many retirees ...

Military retirees and disabled veterans will receive a 2.8% increase in monthly payments for 2026 under the annual ...

The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for 2026 will not be a windfall for the millions of beneficiaries who rely on ...

In France, it’s also important to put the reform in perspective: it proposed raising the retirement age by two years, to 64.