{"id":30973,"date":"2026-01-03T01:24:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=30973"},"modified":"2026-01-03T01:24:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:24:49","slug":"social-security-announces-new-cost-of-living-adjustment-cola-checks-what-you-need-to-know-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=30973","title":{"rendered":"Social Security Announces New Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Checks \u2013 What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news sounds hopeful. Social Security checks are going up again\u2014but the relief may be far smaller than many retirees desperately need. A 3.2% COLA increase starts in January 2025, lifting the average benefit to around $1,790 a month. For some, that\u2019s barely one more grocery trip, one co-pay, one utility bill. As rent, food, and medicine keep climbing, millions are asking the same question: is this \u201craise\u201d already gone before it arrives? And with Trump\u2019s proposed Social Security tax changes looming over retirement planning, the stakes are even higher. Your state, your age, and your benefit category could decide whether you stay afloat\u2014or start slipping behind. Before you count on that extra $50, you need to see how much you\u2019ll really kee\u2026 Continues\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news sounds hopeful. Social Security checks are going up again\u2014but the relief may be far smaller than many retirees desperately need. A 3.2% COLA increase starts&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30976,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30973\/revisions\/30976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}