Your Social Security check will rise 3.6% next year, but will it be able to keep up with inflation?
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Cola
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Coverage evolution
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- May 16
- Latest update
- Oct 29
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- 14
- Stories
- 28
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Social Security’s COLA could rise as much as 4.2% in 2027, boosted by Iran war impact and inflation MarketWatch · May 16, 2026 -
Source breadth expanded
Source breadth reached 5 independent news outlets in the tracked window.
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Now classified as Coverage developing.
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Latest update
Most recent tracked report from MarketWatch.
Is it curtains for COLA? Saving Social Security could mean changing the cost-of-living adjustment. MarketWatch · 1h ago
Oct 14, 2026
3 reports 3 outlets — MarketWatch, NYT, The Hill
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25 reports on days without concentrated coverage, newest first.
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