2025 Social Security COLA Increase Cheats Senior Citizens out of Their Retirement

Jeff Siegel

Written By Jeff Siegel

Posted July 26, 2024

The 2025 Social Security COLA increase is a sick joke.

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If you’re unfamiliar, COLA stands for “cost of living adjustment,” and it’s designed to keep up with inflation. In theory, there should be nothing controversial about this, but in practice? Well, that’s a different story.

According to a study published by the Senior Citizens League, from 2000–2023, the buying power associated with social security benefits has decreased by 36%. Check it out…

Soaring inflation over the past two years has deeply weakened the buying power of Social Security benefits, particularly for the oldest and disabled adults who have received benefits the longest. This latest research on the buying power of Social Security benefits finds that older adults who retired before 2000 (now age 85 and older) have lost 36% of their buying power and would need an extra $516.70 more per month ($6,200 more in 2023) than they are currently getting to maintain the same level of buying power as in 2000.

Today, in 2024, the average retiree gets about $1,900 a month. The 2025 Social Security COLA increase is expected to come in at around 2.6%, or less than $50 more per month. 

The Senior Citizens League also noted that nearly 70% of senior citizens reported a 10% increase in their monthly bills from 2022–2023. That year, the COLA clocked in at 8.7%, so heading into 2025, Social Security payments are already falling short of keeping up with inflation.

2025 Social Security COLA Increase Won’t Cut It

If you’re a regular reader of these pages, you know that we are highly critical of Social Security.

How could we not be? After all, this is the greatest Ponzi scheme in the history of the United States, and it infuriates me. I even opined on this just a few months ago after reading this headline…

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If that doesn’t piss you off, I don’t know what will.

Let’s face it. Retirees aren’t just looking at massive cuts to their Social Security benefits. They’re being confronted with a harsh reality: The government stole their money. 

Yes, I wrote “stole.” I will not sugarcoat this. This IS theft. 

They took your money, without permission and with the promise of returning it to you after you hit age 67. Now they’re changing the terms of the deal — a deal, by the way, that you never voluntarily agreed to.

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