{"id":863749,"date":"2026-08-22T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/863749\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:00:11","slug":"every-social-security-beneficiary-should-have-this-day-marked-on-their-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/863749\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Social Security Beneficiary Should Have This Day Marked on Their Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"

The long-awaited 2027 Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) announcement is now just a few weeks away. You’re probably eager to learn what kind of benefit boost you can expect next year, especially after the high inflation we’ve faced so far in 2026.<\/p>\n

We’re still waiting on a few key pieces of information needed to perform the COLA calculation, but they will arrive over the next couple of months. Here’s what you need to know.<\/p>\n

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The Social Security Administration will officially announce the 2027 COLA on the morning of Oct. 14, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern. That’s the day it finally gets the September inflation data, the last piece of information necessary to complete the COLA calculation.<\/p>\n

The latest projections from the Senior Citizens League, a nonpartisan senior group, suggest the COLA will come in at around 3.6%. This is down slightly from the group’s earlier estimate of 3.8% and reflects cooling inflation over the last couple of months. If inflation continues to slow, the COLA may come in a little lower than expected, and if inflation rises, your benefit may see a bigger boost.<\/p>\n

A 3.6% COLA would add roughly $75 to the $2,086 average monthly benefit as of July 2026. But you could get more or less than this, depending on how your checks stack up to the current average.<\/p>\n

Once the official Social Security COLA<\/a> is in, you can use the percentage to get a rough idea of how much you’ll get next year. The Social Security Administration will also send you a personalized COLA notice in early December stating your exact 2027 benefit amount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The long-awaited 2027 Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) announcement is now just a few weeks away. You’re probably…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,186,184,185],"class_list":["post-863749","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\/863749","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=863749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}