The current formula for Social Security's cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) is under scrutiny for failing to keep pace with ...

With state-level electricity subsidies on the rise, the government is revising how it calculates inflation for power consumption. In a major methodological shift, the new Consumer Price Index ...

Financially speaking, we keep asking more of retirees. First, we ask folks who have saved for a lifetime to live on less while banks and indebted consumers use low interest rates to heal. Then we ask ...

Seniors will get a 2.5% Social Security COLA next year, boosting the average benefit to $1,976 per month. The government calculates COLAs based on third-quarter inflation data that doesn't look at ...