The 2025 COLA Estimates for Retirees Are Poor Yet May Be the Best Ever

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2023 was a peculiar year as the world gradually emerged from the pandemic, grappling with residual health and economic challenges. Amidst these issues, retirees received a significant cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) of 8.7%, the largest in four decades, to help offset inflation. However, the 2024 COLA saw a much smaller increase of 3.2%, more in line … Read more