A half-dozen changes, concerning everything from Social Security checks to the payroll tax select workers will owe, are now ...

Workers will have to earn a little bit more to earn their 2025 Social Security work credits, and that's not the only change this year.

The COLA is intended to maintain the purchasing power of benefits against inflation, which has been notably higher in recent years. Let's dive deeper into how the COLA is calculated, what it will be ...