Consider it like this: If the average retired worker benefit at age 70 is $2,068 per month, and Social Security's 2025 COLA is 2.5%, then the average 70 year old will receive an additional $51.70 per month next year. No other age group has a large baseline benefit, so no other group will receive a larger COLA.

Social Security recipients are expected to receive a smaller cost-of-living increase in January than in recent years as inflation moderates

The Social Security Administration just announced how much more recipients will get in 2025 following its cost-of-living adjustment.

Retirees’ Social Security benefits will rise 2.5% in 2025, the smallest cost-of-living adjustment in four years. Starting in January the average monthly check for the nation’s millions of retirement benefit recipients will be $1,

About 70.6 million Social Security recipients are expected to receive a smaller cost of living increase for 2025 than in recent years, as inflation has moderated.

Sherri Myers, an 82-year-old resident of Pensacola City, Florida, says the Social Security cost-of-living increase she’ll receive in January “won’t make a dent” in helping her meet her day-to-day expenses.

Social Security retirement and disability benefits for 2025 will increase by 2.5% and about $50 a month starting in January, the government announced Thursday. Why it matters: The cost-of-living adjustment,