--- title: Social Security COLA for 2025 Could Be Over 2.6%, According to New Predictions description: Social Security beneficiaries are now projected to get a 2.63% raise (or COLA) for 2025, according to a Senior Citizens League forecast. authors: - name: Julia Glum role: Managing Editor url: https://money.com/author/julia-glum/ bio: Julia Glum joined Money in 2018 and specializes in covering financial trends that affect everyday Americans' wallets. She also writes Dollar Scholar, a weekly newsletter that teaches young adults how to navigate the messy world of money. education: University of Florida at_money_since: 2018 articles: 453 covers: - Retirement - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Debt - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Shopping - Taxes - Technology also_seen_in: - Newsweek - International Business Times - CBS News - Good Morning America - WUSA9 - Pix 11 - The New York Times - Mashable - The Washington Post - CNBC - Politico social: - https://x.com/superjulia - https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-glum editors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Retirement - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2024-07-11T17:48:12.000Z' modified: '2024-07-11T17:51:42.000Z' section: Retirement tags: - News word_count: 512 canonical: https://money.com/social-security-cola-2025-new-prediction/ type: NewsArticle source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Senior couple using a laptop and looking through papers at home](https://img.money.com/2024/07/News-COLA-2025-Estimate.jpg) Thanks to the latest inflation data, Social Security beneficiaries are now projected to get a 2.63% raise for 2025. That's according to The Senior Citizens League, a nonpartisan group that puts out a monthly estimate for the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA). That 2.63% forecast is a slight increase from last month's prediction, which was 2.57%, [according to a news release](https://seniorsleague.org/press-brief-7-11-24-2025-cola/). Federal data released Thursday indicates that headline inflation cooled to 3% in June. But [COLA calculations](https://money.com/how-social-security-benefits-cola-calculated/) are based on a metric called the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, or CPI-W. In June, the CPI-W was 2.9% year over year. ## Long-Term Care Insurance allows you to know that you and your loved ones are financially protected as you age ### Regular health insurance, disability insurance, and Medicare are not designed to cover long-term care costs. Get Long-Term Care Insurance today - select your state to get a free quote. 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In an email Thursday, she also pointed out that "persistently high prices" for certain categories of goods and services often purchased by older, retired and/or disabled Americans are "causing distress." For example, food prices are up 2.2% from last year, and shelter has jumped 5.2%. Crucially, the cost of hospital services has risen 7.1%, and the [cost for elderly care](https://money.com/retirees-afford-long-term-care-costs/) at home is up a whopping 11.4% from last June. The Senior Citizens League surfaced a similar concern, writing that "although easing inflation should relieve older consumers, the rapidly increasing price of groceries the 2020s have seen thus far mean financial relief is still far away." ## When will the 2025 COLA be announced? The Social Security Administration will [calculate the official COLA](https://money.com/social-security-cola-cpi-e/) by taking the average inflation rate during July, August and September of 2024 and comparing it to that average from 2023. The difference will be the benefits adjustment. That means this month's inflation data will be the first to have a direct impact on the 2025 COLA. In terms of a specific date, the COLA announcement usually happens the same day the Bureau of Labor Statistics drops its September inflation numbers. This year, that's Oct. 10. It may seem counterintuitive, but because many of them are on fixed incomes, Social Security recipients often end up crossing their fingers for stubborn inflation. In general, high inflation equals a high COLA. For instance, after inflation spiked in 2022, the government rubber-stamped a huge 8.7% raise for Social Security beneficiaries for 2023: the biggest increase 1981. 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