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Although the 2024 increase is still above average, advocates for seniors say it doesn’t reflect the continued impact of inflation on seniors’ actual costs. Dreamstime/TNS
Retirees will receive a raise from Social Security in 2024, but the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to their monthly payments will be significantly lower than the increases they received in 2023 and 2022.