The discrepancy is because the cost of rent and medical expenses are not used to calculate the consumer price index, from ...

Social Security benefits received a 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2025, but for many retirees, this is not enough ...

The maximum rent increase allowed this year under New York’s 2023 “good cause eviction” law will be just under 9%.

To calculate the COLA, officials compare the average CPI-W from the third quarter (July through September) of one year to the same period the year before. If there's an increase, benefits increase ...

For 2025, the CPI-W showed a 2.5% increase in 2024, so benefits increased by 2.5%. However, inflation picked up speed toward the end of 2024, which means prices rose faster than the adjustment ...

The latest figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show there are now 12.9 million people claiming the State ...

based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ CPI-W, the index used to calculate the annual increase. December’s CPI-W came in at 2.8%. The latest prediction reflects cooling inflation ...

we expected seasonally adjusted CPI for owner’s equivalent rent (OER) to increase by 0.31% in December, an annualized rate of 3.73% (actuals = 3.80%). Using current on-market rent forecasts ...

See How Much Inflation Is Costing You After sharply increasing in 2022, inflation has been moderating in the U.S. in recent years. The increase in overall prices – measured by the Consumer Price Index ...

Morgan Stanley expects January 2025 core consumer price index (CPI) print at 0.37%, significantly above the December 2024 ...