cost-of-living adjustment

Example Sentences

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If you manage to get an offer, brace for a cost-of-living adjustment.

From The Wall Street Journal

If inflation continues to fall, next year’s Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, will be less than this year’s.

From MarketWatch

These increases dwarf the annual cost-of-living adjustment that’s applied to Social Security benefits every year.

From Barron's

But you also have a pension, and although you don’t mention a cost-of-living adjustment, that pension and your Social Security benefits would see you through lean times even without your IRA.

From MarketWatch

The increase in 2026 will also eat up over a quarter of Social Security’s 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment.

From MarketWatch