{"id":2347,"date":"2025-10-24T12:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T16:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2025-10-24T12:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T16:51:06","slug":"cost-of-living-adjustment-cola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/2025\/10\/24\/cost-of-living-adjustment-cola\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/news\/en\/cola\/factsheets\/2026.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>2026 Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Fact Sheet<\/strong><\/a> posted by SSA: \u201cBased on the increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W) from the third quarter of 2024 through the third quarter of 2025, Social Security beneficiaries and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients will receive a 2.8 percent COLA for 2026.\u201d Check the full Fact Sheet.<\/p>\n<p>NARFE has provided a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/24\/annual-cola-falls-short-for-fers-retirees\/?_zs=rk6mm&amp;_zl=l0HW3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>media statement related to the COLA<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Cost-of-Living Adjustment Provides Relief from Rising Prices, But Falls Short for FERS Retirees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/10\/2025-10-14-News-2.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2348,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions\/2348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}