Social Security Payment Adjustments Projected to Be Lowest in Years, Group Predicts

The cost-of-living adjustment for 2026 will be announced by the Social Security Administration later this year.

Blank Social Security checks are run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility in Philadelphia. William Thomas Cain/Getty Images

A prominent seniors group predicted that the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for next year’s Social Security payments will be 2.4 percent, a 0.1 percentage point increase from its prediction last month.

In a statement Tuesday, the Senior Citizens League said that it’s down 0.1 percentage points from 2025’s COLA that was announced by the Social Security Administration, which was 2.5 percent.