Millions of Social Security recipients will see their 2026 cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, show up in payments this month ...

Regular Social Security retirement payments, according to SSA’s calendar, follow a regular schedule based on your birthdate. However, if you started receiving benefits before May 1997, you’ll remain ...

Claiming your Social Security payments is a retirement milestone. However, not everyone receives their Social Security check on the same date. Benefits are paid out on Wednesdays, and recipients with ...

Social Security checks typically go out on the second, third, or fourth Wednesday of each month. Those receiving SSI and Social Security get their checks on the third of each month. SSI beneficiaries ...

This will raise the average retirement benefit by $56 per month. Some of this increase will get eaten up by rising costs and, possibly, Social Security benefit taxes. Benefits are increasing, but so ...