The annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for Social Security and Supplemental Security Income payments is forecast to be 2.5 percent next year, according to an estimate released Wednesday.
Based on the federal government’s inflation data, Social Security checks will go up by 2.5 percent in 2026, according to an estimate from The Senior Citizens League. That is up from the 2.4 percent that was forecasted in May.
Notably, tens of millions of Social Security recipients received the same boost—2.5 percent—to their 2025 payments.
“Seniors should be concerned as inflation continues to tick upward. [The Senior Citizens League’s] research shows that there’s a serious disconnect between the inflation the government reports and the inflation that seniors experience every day. If the government tells us that prices are rising faster, it’s likely that seniors are already feeling the crunch,” said the group’s director, Shannon Benton, in a statement on Wednesday….