{"id":851336,"date":"2026-08-11T10:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851336\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T10:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:58:23","slug":"social-security-cola-2027-why-a-new-mexico-financial-advisor-says-you-shouldnt-spend-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851336\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Security COLA 2027: Why a New Mexico financial advisor says you shouldn&#8217;t spend more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Promising to be the biggest adjustment in four years, our financial expert is actually advising you not to spend extra.  Here&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. \u2014 New projections are out for next year\u2019s Social Security raise and it could be the biggest cost-of-living adjustment in four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, David Hicks with Oakmont Advisory Group says you shouldn\u2019t spend more with the 3.8% increase, amounting to about $75 to $80 more per check.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hicks breaks down what this all really means for New Mexico retirees in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Promising to be the biggest adjustment in four years, our financial expert is actually advising you not to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,186,184,185],"class_list":["post-851336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}