The 2.5 percent COLA for 2025 may not only shortchange current Social Security recipients. It also sets a troubling precedent for future retirees. As prices for essentials like housing and healthcare continue to rise, these modest cost-of-living adjustment increases won’t be enough to support those who rely heavily on Social Security in retirement.
With each passing year of low adjustments, retirees’ purchasing power weakens. The gap between rising costs and stagnant benefits widens, leaving future retirees at risk of facing serious financial strain. If COLAs remain out of touch with real-world inflation, today’s workforce will enter retirement with benefits that fall short of covering their basic needs.
Future retirees should be paying close attention to these trends. If the system continues to under-deliver on adjustments, younger generations will bear the brunt of these shortcomings when it’s their turn to retire. It’s time to rethink how we calculate COLA to ensure fair benefits for all retirees.
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The Seniors Center is committed to finding solutions to strengthen and protect the Social Security Trust Fund. Social Security is a contract between citizens and the government. Money deposited in the Trust Fund should only be used to pay benefits to eligible recipients.
The Seniors Center is demanding Congress finally put a stop to the careless borrowing and spending by greedy politicians that has put our Trust Fund and our secure retirement in jeopardy.
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