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How lawmakers are looking to change the COLA for federal retirees

House lawmakers have reintroduced the Equal COLA Act, to equalize cost-of-living adjustments for federal retirees, and the Fair COLA for Seniors Act, to…

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For 2023, federal retirees will see largest COLA increase in over 40 years

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Windfall/Offset repeal, COLA reform: Now or ever?

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Congress introduces idea to change how COLAs are calculated for federal retirees

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FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2017, file photo, new $1 bills are cut and stacked at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington. It would be the token of all tokens: a $1 trillion coin, minted by the U.S. government, then cashed in to flood the treasury with cash and solve a political impasse over suspending the debt limit. The idea is getting some attention in Washington as an Oct. 18 deadline approaches, with Democrats and Republicans deadlocked over how to stave off an unprecedented credit default. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Inflation, debt, retirement: A bad mix

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Gasoline prices are displayed at a station in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. Prices for U.S. consumers jumped 6.8% in November compared with a year earlier as surging costs for food, energy, housing and other items left Americans enduring their highest annual inflation rate since 1982. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Is 2022 the start of big time inflation?

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Social Security checks getting big boost as inflation rises

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FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2020, file photo people watch as the sun sets from the Presidio in San Francisco. Rising inflation is expected to lead to a sizeable increase in Social Security's annual cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for 2022. Exactly how much will be revealed Wednesday morning after a Labor Department report on inflation during September, a data point used in the final calculation. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

EXPLAINER: Why Social Security COLA will jump next year

Rising inflation is expected to lead to a sizeable increase in Social Security’s annual cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for the year 2022

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FERS + COVID = retirement tsunami?

Have your career plans changed some, a lot or completely since the COVID pandemic? Has the retirement tsunami, first predicted in the 1990s, actually started?

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King-sized COLA coming — for some!

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Currently, most feds in retirement left under the CSRS program so they get full COLAs. But the overwhelming majority of people working for Uncle Sam now are under the FERS program.

cost of living adjustment

How lawmakers are looking to change the COLA for federal retirees

For 2023, federal retirees will see largest COLA increase in over 40 years

Windfall/Offset repeal, COLA reform: Now or ever?

Congress introduces idea to change how COLAs are calculated for federal retirees

Inflation, debt, retirement: A bad mix

Is 2022 the start of big time inflation?

January COLA or January raise: Why not both?

Inflation alert: Are you on the Titanic or the iceberg?

4.9% COLA and 2.7% pay raise: What’s not to like?

Giant COLA: Mixed blessing!

Social Security checks getting big boost as inflation rises

EXPLAINER: Why Social Security COLA will jump next year

FERS + COVID = retirement tsunami?

King-sized COLA coming — for some!