See how cost of living indexes provide info on essential costs associated with different areas of the U.S., plus the Social Security Administration's COLA for 2025.

Social Security recipients commonly rely on cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs ... COLAs are based on third quarter data from the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W ...

Social Security's 2026 cost-of-living adjustment may be 2.5%, a new estimate shows. But COLA could still get a boost if ...

THE COST OF LIVING ONE of the most frequently cited U.S. economic statistics is the Consumer Price Index, commonly (and erroneously) referred to as the cost-of-living index. Some 4,000,000 workers ...

This is the consumer price index from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, not to be confused with a cost of living index. "That’s the index that went up 7.5% in the last year, ...

Social Security beneficiaries can expect a 3.2% cost-of-living increase next year. It's a smaller increase than the 8.7% bump recipients got this year, which was the largest in decades.

Cost of Living Trends for 2025. The consumer price index and the Social Security Administration’s cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) represent two significant indicators of fluctuations in the ...

A cost of living index assigns a numerical value to measure and compare affordability between cities. Most indices use either the national average or a base score of 100 for a city.