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Social Security COLA 2027: Benefits checks will get largest cost-of-living adjustment in years. Experts say it’s not enough

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Social Security COLA 2027: Benefits checks will get largest cost-of-living adjustment in years. Experts say it’s not enough
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Tens of millions of Social Security recipients will be seeing a bump in their monthly checks come January.



On Wednesday, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced that its annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2027 will be 3.6%. (Those numbers follow this morning’s release of the consumer price index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), based on September inflation data.)



Some 71 million Americans—54 million retired workers and 9 million of their survivors and depende

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