2025 COLA Estimate for Social Security, FERS, and CSRS 

2025 COLA Estimate for Social Security, FERS, and CSRS 

After an 8.7% COLA in 2023 and a 3.2% adjustment in 2024, the downward trend is expected to continue for Social Security’s 2025 COLA. Current estimates predict 2.4%.

Retired federal employees receiving a CSRS pension receive the same cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) as recipients of Social Security retirement benefits. It is calculated by looking at inflation numbers for the months of July, August, and September as indicated by the CPI-W index. The average of those three numbers results in the COLA. For FERS retirees, the COLA might be slightly less. Follow link to read more. https://bit.ly/3VLVdpr