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February 19, 2025

📋 Ways to Stretch Your 2025 Social Security COLA (AARP Article)

  • February 19, 2025
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FROM THE ARTICLE: 5 Ways to Stretch the Social Security COLA.

Try these tips if the 2025 adjustment isn’t keeping up with your costs.

 

By Diane Harris, AARP.

 

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Published December 09, 2024.

 

The 2.5 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for Social Security benefits, the smallest increase since 2021, is a double-edged sword.

On one hand, it’s a sign that inflation has been tamed since reaching a 40-year high during the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s good news for consumers, retirees included.

 

USE LINK BELOW TO READ THE ARTICLE: https://www.aarp.org/social-security/stretch-social-security-cola/

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fffred
fffred
Conversationalist ⭐⭐⭐
February 19, 2025

I stretch my COLA the old fashioned way.... writing rubber checks !!  

    SummerOnTheWay1
    SummerOnTheWay1Author
    February 19, 2025

    [2/19/25] Lol @fffred , remember the OLD DAYS when it took about a WEEK for checks to clear? Gave you SOME TIME to ward off the bill collectors when I was age 18. 🤣😂 I finally gave them up several years ago while still living in Florida. Now in Virginia I use a debit card. Thanks for stopping by!!! Nicole 👵

     

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    I stretch my COLA the old fashioned way.... writing rubber checks !!  ***]

      fffred
      fffred
      Conversationalist ⭐⭐⭐
      February 19, 2025

      Debit cards are indeed a good way to budget. No surprise bills end of the month. Either the money's there or it's not.

       

      So, the Florida hurricanes drove you away? I do not miss them and the worry about them.

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