The first Social Security checks with 2025's 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) have gone out, with more coming in the ...

A combination of climate shocks and the pandemic disrupted food and energy production and distribution, driving up costs for people around ... with food prices surging by an average of 24 percent in ...

marking the smallest cost-of-living adjustment since 2021, according to USA TODAY. For the average beneficiary, their monthly payment will rise by $50 next year, going from to $1,907 in January ...