According to a new report from HealthView Services, a health care cost-projection software company, medical costs in retirement are rising at more than twice the pace of the consumer price index, ...
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Over 70 million people rely on Social Security for essential income, including retirement, disability, and survivor benefits.
The historic rise is also "laughably misaligned" and "woefully insufficient," according to experts.
The COLA is called a raise because it results in a retiree’s monthly benefits check getting bigger. The purpose of it is to ...
A new 2.5% COLA forecast is making the rounds, but that number may not tell the whole story.
The Social Security Administration publishes maximum benefits for ages 62, 65, 66, 67, and 70 every year, and updates previous years using the annual COLA. I calculated the theoretical maximum ...
Sometimes it helps to ask the obvious question. Mountville resident Joanne Knaub, a regular reader of this column, called the Watchdog last week with a question that a lot of older Pennsylvanians ...
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