{"id":89731,"date":"2025-01-16T00:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T00:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/retirees-brace-for-an-even-smaller-social-security-cola-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T00:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T00:33:20","slug":"retirees-brace-for-an-even-smaller-social-security-cola-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/retirees-brace-for-an-even-smaller-social-security-cola-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Retirees, Brace for an Even Smaller Social Security COLA in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moneytalksnews.com\/workers\/images\/width=1920\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/15184706\/shutterstock_2103416765-scaled.jpg?s=fad7f529acd8effb9717a7755f80bdee959508ae395bf3832132a67dba567c8b\" alt=\"Upset senior worried about bills\"><figcaption>fizkes \/ Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Social Security increase for 2025 is just now taking effect, as retirees start seeing the extra money sometime this month. But it&rsquo;s technically not too soon to start looking ahead to the bump for 2026. The news isn&rsquo;t good, though: The Senior Citizens League projects that the Social Security cost&#x2d;of&#x2d;living adjustment (COLA) for 2026 will be even smaller than it is for 2025: 2.1%. In fact&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneytalksnews.com\/projected-social-security-cost-of-living-adjustment-scl\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>fizkes \/ Shutterstock.com The Social Security increase for 2025 is just now taking effect, as retirees start seeing the extra money sometime this month. But<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89732,"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-89731","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\/89731","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=89731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}