{"id":103620,"date":"2025-12-22T08:06:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/22\/when-50-costs-you-500-the-coming-social-security-income-cliff\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:06:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:06:24","slug":"when-50-costs-you-500-the-coming-social-security-income-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/22\/when-50-costs-you-500-the-coming-social-security-income-cliff\/","title":{"rendered":"When $50 Costs You $500: The Coming Social Security \u2018Income Cliff\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moneytalksnews.com\/workers\/images\/width=1920\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/14172723\/Cliff-Sign-2372761361-melissamn-scaled.jpg?s=be7e83634eae99cd6cf475628052c335ef5a87a68a715e0b49137ccd2c4b0e7e\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>melissamn \/ Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you\u2019re one of the 71 million Americans receiving Social Security, you\u2019re about to get a raise. In October, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2026. For the average retired worker, this translates to an extra $56 per month. On the surface, that sounds like a win. But for thousands of middle-income seniors, that modest $50-a-month\u2026<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneytalksnews.com\/when-costs-you-the-coming-social-security-income-cliff\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>melissamn \/ Shutterstock.com If you\u2019re one of the 71 million Americans receiving Social Security, you\u2019re about to get a raise. In October, the Social Security<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-money"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}