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How Inflation Is Quietly Eating Your Social Security COLA
In this episode of Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how inflation is quietly eroding the purchasing power of Social Security benefits. They break down the way the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is calculated using CPI-W, a subset of the consumer price index that may not reflect retirees' actual spending patterns. With CPI-W rising slower than the broader CPI in recent years, many seniors are seeing a gap between their COLA increase and real-world cost increases for healthcare and housing. The hosts cite specific data from May 2026, including the…
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