{"id":8280,"date":"2025-12-21T01:04:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=8280"},"modified":"2025-12-21T01:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:04:32","slug":"social-security-announces-new-cost-of-living-adjustment-cola-checks-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=8280","title":{"rendered":"Social Security Announces New Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Checks \u2013 What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s COLA represents a <strong>3.2% increase<\/strong>, which is lower than last year\u2019s historic <strong>8.7% rise<\/strong>. Over <strong>70 million<\/strong> beneficiaries, including retirees, disabled individuals, and others who rely on Social Security, will experience changes in their monthly payments starting in <strong>January 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Effective Date<\/strong>: The new COLA will be reflected in checks starting in January 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Average Monthly Benefit<\/strong>: The average retired worker will see their monthly benefit increase by approximately <strong>$50<\/strong>, bringing the average benefit to <strong>$1,790<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s COLA represents a 3.2% increase, which is lower than last year\u2019s historic 8.7% rise. Over 70 million beneficiaries, including retirees, disabled individuals, and others who rely on Social Security, will experience changes&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8287,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8280\/revisions\/8287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}