Social Security, the monthly benefit paid to retirees, disabled people and survivors of beneficiaries, includes an annual cost of living increase that is announced every fall. It helps seniors try to keep pace with the price increases that touch every part of the economy. The adjustment for 2023, of 8.7 percent, was announced on Thursday. People can begin claiming Social […]
Social Security is funded mainly through FICA taxes on wages — currently 12.4 percent split evenly between employers and workers. In 2022, the tax was collected on the first $147,000 of wages. That amount will rise to $160,200 in 2023. The $13,200 jump in how much of workers’ wages will be taxed is large compared with past increases. In 2022, […]
Annual automatic cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security recipients Note: Between 1975 and 1982, beneficiaries received adjustments in July. After 1982, beneficiaries received them in January. Source: Social Security Administration By The New York Times The first automatic annual adjustment to Social Security benefits was paid in 1975, the result of legislation passed by Congress in 1972. Before that, cost-of-living adjustments […]
In the final week of its emergency bond-buying program, the central bank is expanding its efforts to restore bond market function. LONDON — The Bank of England stepped up its intervention in Britain’s bond market on Tuesday, the second expansion of its emergency measures in two days, as it warned of a “material risk” to the nation’s financial stability from […]
After an earlier announcement sent markets into a tailspin, the prime minister and the chancellor are under pressure to restore fiscal credibility. After days of confusion, Britain’s government said on Monday that the date for its next fiscal policy announcement would be moved up nearly a month and that it would provide, at the same time, a much-anticipated independent assessment […]
The moves at the nation’s largest newspaper publisher include a week of mandatory unpaid leave and voluntary buyouts. The chief executive of Gannett, the largest newspaper publisher in the country, announced widespread cost-cutting to its newsrooms on Wednesday, citing headwinds from the “deteriorating macroeconomic environment.” In a memo to the staff, Mike Reed, the chief executive, said the company would […]
The Bank of England started a bond-buying program last month to stabilize financial markets. But its plan to end the program this Friday is only making investors more nervous. British financial markets plunged into turmoil on Wednesday following mixed messages over whether the Bank of England would continue to provide support to pension funds and other investors, introduced after a […]
The cost-of-living adjustment will be 8.7 percent next year, bringing relief to retirees and others who rely largely on the payments. Want to know more about the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment? Personal finance reporter Tara Siegel Bernard will answer some of your questions in the comments of this article. About 70 million Americans collecting Social Security will receive an 8.7 […]
El ajuste por costo de vida aumentará en 8,7 por ciento el próximo año, brindando alivio a los jubilados y otras personas que dependen en gran medida de esos pagos. Unos 70 millones de estadounidenses que cobran el Seguro Social recibirán un aumento de 8,7 por ciento en sus beneficios el próximo año, el mayor aumento desde 1981, según la […]
Most Americans finance their retirement with a certain amount of faith: Investing will help their savings keep pace with inflation, institutions will continue to work as they always have, it will all work out in the end. It’s challenging to maintain that optimism in moments like these, when it seems just about everything is at stake and nothing is certain. […]
Women break into their savings to cover all kinds of expenses: home down payments, repairs, medical bills. That can hurt them years later. Vickie Elisa was already playing catch-up with her retirement fund when she withdrew $17,000 to fix a plumbing disaster in her Atlanta-area home. The bleeding from that Roth individual retirement account had started four years earlier, when […]