Policymakers cling to a 1970s consumer-price index formula that overstates cost increases and drives up automatic spending.

As nights draw in and bills creep up, households face another squeeze that arrives quietly, then bites hard. Landlords review tenancies in the autumn and ...

Halloween costumes and displays have been in stores since summer, giving families more time to shop and more pressure to ...

The 2026 Social Security COLA will be higher than the 2.5% increase retirees received this year. However, 94% of older ...

PARENTS on benefits are set for a 3.8% payment rise from April, giving extra help with the rising cost of raising children.

Social Security's 2026 cost-of-living adjustment is 2.8%, but over time, a pattern has emerged in how the agency calculates ...

The lone economic report of Shutdown 2025 was released to great fanfare, but don’t get used to it. When the Bureau of Labor ...

That's a problem, though, because the average retired worker on Social Security only receives a little more than $2,000 per month these days. Given how ...

Joanne Hsu, chief economist of the University of Michigan’s long-running consumer sentiment survey, says consumers are “still ...

Not much cheer for savers as 2025 heads towards its end, with term deposit rates being lowered by some, and soft everywhere ...

Many benefit claimants will be hoping to see their payment rates increase next year, after the CPI figures for September - traditionally the ...

A coalition of Democratic senators announced plans to introduce legislation aimed at providing additional financial support for older Americans and veterans struggling with inflati ...