2025 Social Security Cost-of-Living Increase Released

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Social Security beneficiaries will receive a monthly benefit increase of 2.5 percent in 2025, according to an announcement from the Social Security Administration on Oct. 10. This figure is lower than the 3.2 percent increase seen in 2024, and the 8.7 percent increase in 2023, which was the largest single-year bump since 1981.

According to the Social Security Administration, the average beneficiary will see their retirement benefits go up by more than $48 each month starting Jan. 1.

What is the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment?

Every year, the federal government calculates the change in Social Security benefits based on inflation. This is the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA).

Specifically, the annual COLA is linked to the increase in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) as established by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The 2025 COLA was based on the increase in the CPI-W from the third quarter of 2023 through the third quarter of 2024. 

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