These polling results show why the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) reveal by the Social Security Administration (SSA) is the most-anticipated announcement for beneficiaries year after year.

Social Security recipients, including the roughly 1.5 million living in Arizona, will receive a 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, starting in 2025, raising the average monthly benefit by ...

The big challenge for retirees is that they're still reeling from the high inflation experienced in 2021 and 2022, which was reflected in the COLAs for the following years. Those years top the ...