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Social Security cost-of-living adjustment may be lower in 2025. These charts help show why
Eva-katalin | E+ | Getty Images Retirees are still feeling the impact of higher prices. Yet one buffer for the effects of inflation — the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, — may be lower next year. As the rate of inflation moderates, the …