{"id":47773,"date":"2026-04-20T23:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=47773"},"modified":"2026-04-20T23:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:11:11","slug":"social-security-cola-update-2025-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=47773","title":{"rendered":"Social Security COLA Update 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the average retired worker, the 3.2% Cost-of-Living Adjustment means about $50 more a month. Disability, survivor, and SSI beneficiaries will see increases too. But in a world where a single prescription can swallow that entire amount, and a routine grocery run devours the rest, the raise feels less like progress and more like barely treading water. It\u2019s help, yes\u2014but help measured in inches, not miles.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\" data-uid=\"099ae\">\n<div id=\"mgw1861172_099ae\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"mgbox card-media\" data-template-type=\"container\">\n<div class=\"mgheader\" data-template-type=\"header\" data-template-placed=\"before\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Behind every percentage point is a life built on work, sacrifice, and promises that Social Security would be there when paychecks stopped. Instead, people are forced to become accountants of scarcity, deciding which necessity to sacrifice next. The cruelest part isn\u2019t just the smallness of the increase; it\u2019s the quiet realization that even when the system \u201cworks,\u201d it still leaves millions one bad month away from disaster.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1766448\" data-uid=\"0e133\">\n<div id=\"mgw1766448_0e133\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"mgbox\">\n<div class=\"mgheader\" data-template-type=\"header\" data-template-placed=\"before\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; For the average retired worker, the 3.2% Cost-of-Living Adjustment means about $50 more a month. Disability, survivor, and SSI beneficiaries will see increases too. But in a world &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47775,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47773\/revisions\/47775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}