Almost all Social Security beneficiaries are familiar with the most popular and publicized change: the increase in monthly benefit checks for 2025 due to the automated cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA. As you already know, that increase will be 2.5%.

The average Social Security payment will rise by more than $50 per month starting in January, thanks to the federal government’s 3.2% annual cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA. A 3.2% increase in the average Social Security check—about $1,

Social Security Income (SSI) payments are designed for people who have little to no income. So if you earn too much you can lose your benefits. In 2024, that annual income limit was $11,321.49 for an individual. In 2025, that goes up to $11,604.53. That's $967 per month.

As of the 2024 Trustees Report, Social Security was contending with a $23.2 trillion (and growing) long-term funding obligation shortfall. Even more pressing, the asset reserves for the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund (OASI), which provides monthly payouts to retired workers and survivor beneficiaries, is expected to be depleted by 2033.

Retirees with public pensions and their spouses are now eligible for their full Social Security benefits. Just two weeks before leaving the White House, President Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act of 2023 into law on Jan.

The Social Security Fairness Act was co-sponsored by U.S. Rep. Garret Graves, R-Baton Rouge, and U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D- Virginia. The bill eliminates federal provisions that reduce benefits for teachers,

Former Louisiana Congressman Garret Graves' Social Security Fairness Act repeals WEP and GPO penalties for millions of government retirees.

The Social Security Fairness Act (SSFA), which was recently signed into law on Jan. 5, by President Joe Biden, eliminates rules that reduce Social Security benefits for those who also get income