{"id":12787,"date":"2026-02-02T12:27:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=12787"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:27:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:27:49","slug":"social-security-announces-new-cost-of-living-adjustment-cola-checks-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=12787","title":{"rendered":"Social Security Announces New Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Checks \u2013 What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"63\" data-end=\"370\"><strong data-start=\"63\" data-end=\"95\">\ud83d\udcb0 Social Security COLA 2025<\/strong><br \/>\nSocial Security benefits are going up <strong data-start=\"134\" data-end=\"150\">3.2% in 2025<\/strong>.<br data-start=\"151\" data-end=\"154\" \/>Over <strong data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"183\">70 million Americans<\/strong> will see higher payments starting January\u2014about <strong data-start=\"232\" data-end=\"254\">$50 more per month<\/strong> for the average retiree.<br data-start=\"279\" data-end=\"282\" \/>Helpful, but many say it still doesn\u2019t keep up with rising healthcare and housing costs.<\/p>\n<hr data-start=\"372\" data-end=\"375\" \/>\n<p data-start=\"377\" data-end=\"679\"><strong data-start=\"377\" data-end=\"417\">\ud83c\udfa4 \u201cThat\u2019s What Freedom Sounds Like\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nAOC called Senator John Kennedy \u201cdangerous\u201d and said he should be silenced.<br data-start=\"493\" data-end=\"496\" \/>Kennedy didn\u2019t argue\u2014he <strong data-start=\"520\" data-end=\"550\">read her tweets on live TV<\/strong>, word for word.<br data-start=\"566\" data-end=\"569\" \/>Then he said: <strong data-start=\"583\" data-end=\"621\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\u201cThat\u2019s what freedom sounds like.\u201d<\/strong><br data-start=\"621\" data-end=\"624\" \/>No insults. No shouting. Just the Constitution winning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \ud83d\udcb0 Social Security COLA 2025 Social Security benefits are going up 3.2% in 2025.Over 70 million Americans will see higher payments starting January\u2014about $50 more per month for the average retiree.Helpful, but many say it still doesn\u2019t keep up with rising healthcare and housing costs. \ud83c\udfa4 \u201cThat\u2019s What Freedom Sounds Like\u201d AOC called Senator &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12788,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12787\/revisions\/12788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}