Policymakers cling to a 1970s consumer-price index formula that overstates cost increases and drives up automatic spending.

After a long drought of government economic releases, we finally got a key update last week: the Consumer Price Index (CPI) ...

Image source: The Motley Fool. The SSA uses the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) to ...

SC Garg, the secretary of ministry of statistics and programme implementation, made a significant announcement during a recent interview in a daily newspaper. He said that the Government was ready to ...

After a long drought of government economic releases, we finally got a key update last week: the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The report came ...

Halloween costumes and displays have been in stores since summer, giving families more time to shop and more pressure to ...

As seniors face rising prices for shelter and medical services, their annual benefit boosts aren't keeping up.

The higher the Social Security benefit, the more money that you can collect every year when the COLA is announced.

As nights draw in and bills creep up, households face another squeeze that arrives quietly, then bites hard. Landlords review ...

Social Security benefits are getting a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2026. That's a larger raise than the 2.5% ...

The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for 2026 will not be a windfall for the millions of beneficiaries who rely on ...

Military retirees and disabled veterans will receive a 2.8% increase in monthly payments for 2026 under the annual ...