Social Security recipients get a 2.8% cost-of-living boost in 2026, averaging $56 per month

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Social Security recipients get a 2.8% cost-of-living boost in 2026, averaging $56 per month
By FATIMA HUSSEIN
Agency officials said Friday that the benefits increase takes effect in January. The cost-of-living adjustment for retirees and disabled beneficiaries is financed by payroll taxes collected from workers and their employers. An annual salary cap, slated to increase to $184,500 in 2026, from $176,100 in 2025, limits what higher-income earners contribute.

Recipients received a 2.5% cost-of-living boost in 2025 and a 3.2% increase in their benefits in 2024, after a historically large 8.7% benefit increase in 2023, brought on by record 40-year-high inflation.
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[Emile]

1. Wow, free slot play money.

[Champp]

2. Republican billionaires get invites to grand opening of Epstein Ball Room

So they can have a collective smirk at all the people they have suckered

[yaesu]

3. Oh, that will cut into the 20% inflation, oh boy, can't wait. nt

[NewHendoLib]

4. Well, that's not a big fucking deal.

[dweller]

5. I'm surprised it's a positive #

Figured it would be a reduction in benefits and the $ saved going into Pisswig’s new grift



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[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. So everyone here pisses and moans about how small the increase is.

At least SS goes up. My pension doesn't. That's remained the same for over a decade.

I at least have a pension and savings. So many cannot be bothered to save penny one of their income and I frankly have no sympathy. And before you start complaining about the cost of things, remember that there are plenty of people making less and somehow managing.