Beginning in 1975, the Consumer Price Index for Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) became the inflationary index used ...

New government inflation data points to a lower Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for 2026 compared to the 2.5% ...

tied to a subset of the Consumer Price Index known as the CPI-W, which tracks the price of goods and services across the economy. Here is how it works: The CPI-W from the third quarter of the ...

Social Security COLA will be announced in October 2025. Here's when to expect it, how it's calculated, and what to know about ...

A version of the CPI for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W) is used by the BLS to calculate the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) annual increase in Social Security benefits meant to ...

Those COLAs are based on a subset of the Consumer Price Index known as the CPI-W, which measures price changes based on the ...

Both the overall and core CPI measures rose by a modest 0.1 percent for March, bringing the 12-month trend rates down to 2.4 ...