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Social Security COLA 2027 Prediction Hits Highest Forecast Since 2022 — What It Means for Retirees
$COLA 🚀 The clock is ticking! Jan 14 redemption deadline is almost here.
Social Security November Payment Schedule Released || Early SSI Date + 2026 COLA Raise Coming || Thoughts?
Just accepted a job that offers a pension. Should I change my ROTH IRA strategy?
Some of these 100%+ YTD movers aren’t even on most screens. What the institutional read here?
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SS has COLA adjustments. Not the boomers’ problem, lol.
Ok did it. Sold COLA and added both BCAR and BBCQ at 10.90 each. Although I may grab a few COLA rights if they get into the 40s. The company is intriguing with the sector so hot right now
Dumped my COLA down the drain that Rights reaction was brutal
[WISeKey and Its Subsidiary WISeSat Space Corp Announce Confidential Submission of Amended Draft Registration Statement on Form F-4 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/06/04/3306504/0/en/wisekey-and-its-subsidiary-wisesat-space-corp-announce-confidential-submission-of-amended-draft-registration-statement-on-form-f-4-with-the-u-s-securities-and-exchange-commission.html) \- COLA COLAR Finally an update on COLA.
I don't know which one of you convinced me to buy COLA??? Are we still loving it? 😁😁
Maybe when they file a public F-4 it will get more attention. They [filed a confidential one in December](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/12/29/3211134/0/en/WISeKey-International-Holding-AG-Nasdaq-WKEY-and-Columbus-Acquisition-Corp-Nasdaq-COLA-Announce-Confidential-Submission-of-Draft-Registration-Statement-on-Form-F-4-in-Connection-wi.html), but don't see a public filing yet, no idea why the delay.
Cannot buy COLA on Schwab. Low float???
Space sector adding billions per day in mkt cap. COLA still flat just above NAV Will be interesting if it gets picked up
Let’s take an extreme example over a moderate time frame of (let’s say) three years. You have 5% of your portfolio allocated evenly over 20 stocks that have reverse split. And 19 of these go totally belly up, not necessarily out of business, but to the point of a restructuring that wipes out stockholders. The other, though, goes up 20x. More likely, a few stocks would be up a little. A few more are COLA even. Ten to 12 are down, some a little, some a lot. And a couple are way ahead.
College professor of finance for engineers made us build several kinds of spreadsheet models showing how compound interest works and proving that someone getting a 2% COLA every year on their starting salary at age 21 starting to invest 15% of their salary at age 31 until retirement can NEVER catch up to someone investing 15% of the same salary from age 21 to 31 and then stopping all contributions. Several of us took that advice seriously and that class alone was easily worth the price of 4 years tuition.
Hahaha fuck. He is for sure the kind of guy to get a COLA raise at work and tell his friends and family it’s a bonus.
$COLA rights are up too, but I believe they have until the 22nd to extend another month, but it appears they have the intent to do so. .59c for 1/7 rights seams like a bargain
Surprised COLA isn't getting much attention yet considering the SpaceX partnership, still just barely above NAV.
I have a pension, but I also maxed out my tax deferred accounts as as soon as I could afford to because I wasn't sure how long I would stay at the job. As it turns out, I may have oversaved...but you never really know, and it's nice having various sources of funds. Make sure you understand all of the details of your pension, in particular: (1) even though you may be entitled to a 50% pension after 20 years of service, you may or may not be able to draw the pension after 20 years of service. I don't have that kind of pension, but our law enforcement pensions are 50% after 20 years, but you can't start drawing the pension until you are 52 or 65 (depending on the exact plan). (2) You also need to know whether or not your pension has an automatic COLA or not. Many state and local pensions don't, and this is of particular importance if you start drawing your pension ASAP - 50% of your salary in retirement may not be much 20 or 30 years into retirement.
A [confidential F-4 registration statement was filed in December 2025](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/12/29/3211134/0/en/WISeKey-International-Holding-AG-Nasdaq-WKEY-and-Columbus-Acquisition-Corp-Nasdaq-COLA-Announce-Confidential-Submission-of-Draft-Registration-Statement-on-Form-F-4-in-Connection-wi.html), but no public registration statement yet.
COLA 2.55m float SPAC with NAV around 10.55. Merging with WiseSat Space. They are partnered with SpaceX Starting to get talked about on X and has had some action past few days.
$COLA DA w/ WISeSatSpace With space stocks going wild into Spacex IPO, this probably gets picked up. \-DA w/@WISeSatSpace \-Trust(float):2.55M \-Deadline: 1/22/2027 \-NAV: $10.35 \-Partnered w/ @SpaceX 👀
$COLA DA w/ WISeSatSpace With space stocks going wild into Spacex IPO, this probably gets picked up. \-DA w/@WISeSatSpace \-Trust(float):2.55M \-Deadline: 1/22/2027 \-NAV: $10.35 \-Partnered w/ @SpaceX 👀
It's baffling that while the government claims inflation is cooling, COLA (Collateralized Inflation Act) forecasts continue to climb.
Highest COLA since 2022 sounds great until you realize it probably means inflation is still beating everyone up.”
COLA announced definitive agreement with WiseKey in November 2025, but doesn't look like anyone has filed a S-4/F-4 registration statement yet.
$COLA hot on Twitter? No float space X partner I guess
> That's not how one would interpret an inflation adjusted graph. As if CPI was a sacrosanct objective stat rather than an utterly gamed stat that elevates substitution bias to a virtue while keeping COLA costs low
COVID market declines were very short term, if a retiree had some cash or non-correlated assets they could have left their stocks alone and we're back at new all-time-highs recently. SS also got large COLA during this period to help keep up with inflation.
Wanahua, WOLF COLA!
All of a sudden Twiiter is saying we won the Irun war and we have successfully punked out CHYNA HOT DOGS AND COCA-COLA FOR EVERYONE
With inflation rising this much month to month, I can’t wait for my COLA to come in to match 😃
? This is not accurate for mortgages. I am locked in for 30 years at 2.75%. I'm not saying this to be callous or brag. Just the reality that inflation makes my debt smaller once we get COLA raises at work.
At least when inflation was 9% I was getting good raises. Now we're gonna have high inflation, and I'm not even getting a COLA and my benefits have been cut...
The reduction in benefits is the “action.” Anyone retiring after 2034 will get 75% benefit payouts. Possibly earlier, as current recipients are also getting COLA increases, and inflation is growing.
The strategy of a retiree turning 62 in beginning to draw Social Security with the Hope of investing the cash and having an 8% CAGR and matching the normalized increase of the Social Security payout is fraught with Risk. This is where sequence of returns Risk comes in to play. Imagine retiring in 2000 and beginning to draw Social Security at age 62 at that year. This theoretical retiree would have the first three years of -11%,-22%, -27%. With these returns, the retiree trying to invest and do as well as the Social Security increases by waiting until FRA, or, age 70, could never catch up,, because the hole is too deep. I hope this real life example demonstrates sequence of returns. Likewise, starting in 2008, the retiree starting Social Security at 62 in this year starts off at a -37% rate of return, which destroys the objective of trying to having the surety of cash in hand and matching the normal increases in Social Security all the way to FRA or 70. Of course, Social Security has some COLA adjustment to provide an additional hurdle that the individual investor must face. I agree with the sentiment in this thread that if a retiree needs the money at age 62 or is in poor health, they should just begin to draw their benefits. Otherwise, it is the toughest of challenges to try to collect, invest, and match the guaranteed inflation returns, built in to the normal Social Security payout schedule. As all of our fellow investors have enjoyed the returns of the past three years and watched our investments grow, it seems easy that taking the payout early, and investing we could do better. In behavioral economics, this is called “ recency bias”.
Way too basic. Most people should WAIT to claim. Higher widow benefit, and a *gauranteed* increase of 8% year, with a COLA on the final benefit. To outperform this when investing would require a high risk tolerance and luck ( who knows what sequence of returns the investor will get??), or you are permanently behind.
Going back to your numbers, there should be about a 77% increase in benefit at age 70 compared to filing at age 62, before factoring in inflation assumptions. If you assume $1425 at 62, it should be at least $2522 at 70. If we assume a 2.5% COLA then the initial benefit at 70 would be $3072. We haven't even touched on the potential tax ramifications. I do this professionally and have created very sophisticated real world models. If your break even is 95, there is a flaw in your model. Lastly, break even is a one dimensional way of making this decision because it doesn't capture several other factors.
This looks crazy, but if you dive in, their middle and lower class has more money left over after expenses than the US middle and lower class. They have universal Healthcare and public transportation that works. So as crazy is this looks, its all relative to local incomes, and COLA. Based on my research the disposable income at the end of the month is 30-45%, compared to 5-10% in the US, in these classes. It's reminds me of how some people see a $1000 stock hit $2k, and are like its up huge, and making fun of my stock going up only 5 dollars from 1.
I thought about that. COLA also increases current benefits to all retirees every year based on CPI. So I assumed that the amount taken out from your 401k would increase by the same percentage on Model A and Model B. So in model A if the COLA is 2% a year then a at age 70 your monthly distribution would increase from 1425 to 1670. I haven’t included it in my calculation, but I’m pretty sure that as long as the % of increase is the same in both scenarios and the retiree matches it in their 401k withdrawal, then the effect should cancel out and wouldn’t change the break even date. It would be worth running the numbers to verify, but I would have to think on the formula.
This is the perfect counterpoint to my comment haha. Thanks for sharing. Another pro I've thought about for waiting, is for people who may have reduced capacity for managing their finances. Getting just this COLA annuity to pay the most possible is very nice, no bond allocation, selling decisions, etc.
Also the COLA for SS will add some complexity. If starting at 62, with 2% per year inflation, the sum over 8 years is about $160k. If not needed for expenses, this money can be invested in an income fund @8% can earn an added $1200 to $1600 per year which is like an extra month per year.
I did some work on a spreadsheet to look at the subject that OP mentions. I attempted to do my dilligence to get it right but you should do yours before using these numbers. I basically started with the average payment given for $1424 at 62 and increased by 8% per year for delaying taking SS and a COLA of 2%. The Year column is what year SS is taken. The Total Pay column is when the total pay received equals taking at 62. The value @ columns is when the value equals taking at 62 based on a return of 8%, 6% and 4%. Hopefully someone finds this helpful. | Year | Total Pay | Value @ 8% | Value @ 6% | Value @ 4% | |-------|-----------|-------------|-------------|-------------| | 63 | 74Y 3M | 88Y 10M | 81Y 5M | 77Y 10M | | 64 | 74Y 9M | 89Y 4M | 81Y 10M | 78Y 5M | | 65 | 75Y 3M | 89Y 10M | 82Y 4M | 78Y 11M | | 66 | 75Y 10M | 90Y 4M | 82Y 11M | 79Y 5M | | 67 | 76Y 5M | 90Y 11M | 83Y 5M | 80Y | | 68 | 77Y | 91Y 5M | 84Y | 80Y 7M | | 69 | 77Y 7M | 92Y | 84Y 7M | 81Y 2M | | 70 | 78Y 2M | 92Y 6M | 85Y 2M | 81Y 8M |
I'll get retirement after 30 years of work when I'm 50. 60% of my income +1.5% semi annually COLA
Now you are correct. The INL reactor is a test and demonstration reactor which should provide performance data to support an NRC design certification under Part 52 or perhaps Part 53 when it is finalized. It may also be converted to commercial use after obtaining an NRC operating license. In contrast to to Oklo, TerraPower, Kairos, and X-Energy are all obtaining NRC licenses under Part 50 and are ahead of schedule to start construction of their reactors. Part 50 is an incremental process well suited for first-of-kind designs. Part 52 is for mature NRC certified reactor designs. Oklo could have gone through the Part 52 process for a COLA but would have first had to mature their design.
No one is claiming a reactor can sell power into the commercial grid without an NRC license… that’s not the point in dispute. The distinction is when and how the NRC licensing burden is carried. Under the RPP/MOU framework, Oklo can design, construct, and operate a non-commercial reactor at INL under DOE authority, generating operational data and validating the full system before seeking commercial authorization. Prior to this framework, Oklo would have been forced into a COLA-first path with incremental NRC approvals before construction or operation. The MOU allows NRC to rely on DOE-accepted analyses and documentation, which materially reduces duplication, regulatory risk, and timeline uncertainty at the back end. The NRC license is still required for grid sales- but it becomes a transition step after an operating reactor exists, not a gate that must be cleared before anything can be built or run.
Did you even read what I wrote? Again, Oklo can design, construct and operate the reactor non-commercially, which is different from the past. Before the MOU, Oklo would have needed to submit their COLA and waited for incremental approval throughout the process… the RPP changed all of that.
Social Security COLA increase is very close to CPI, which are close to people's yearly raises. If something (healthcare) increases 200%, it's problematic and out of alignment.
The market isn’t random is one of the first things you will discover after viewing charts long enough. Then you discover cycles and repeating patterns. Then from there MA crosses predicting price moves. Then waves and fibs. Before long you see everything. Is based on math and follow a programming with some noise thrown in. Then you discover news isn’t random either. It comes out to make it look like it was the news that caused the movement but from reading charts you know it was gonna happen anyways. So the news is obviously fake and made to fit the narritive of the market when needed. Then you start wondering how much of this matrix is actually real or just a simulation that you’re slowing decoding. Once you know all these things you can never look at anything or the world the same way. It’s actually pretty heavy and takes a toll on you but I use this information to my advantage to help me. My family. And others. I’m not on this earth to get rich at others expense. I’m on here to expose the reality of what is really happening not what they gaslight us with 24x7. I miss the days of three tv channels but I will continue on for my grandchildren. The wealthy in control might think we are their little playthings that they can take advantage of and slowly take everything from us and we’re non the wiser. I see what they are doing. I know others also see. Unregulated capitalism only benifits the wealthy and they are basically going for the kill shot. There is no jobs and you don’t hear a single peep from our wealthy leaders on fixing any of the issues. Tiring healthcare to slave wage jobs…. Nice but obvious. Giving raises that don’t except the COLA every year. Year that’s why after 18 years at a bank I was like F this. The American dream is dead because of Reagan and all these greedy sob. I hate them all. I will fight for others till the end. The smoke and mirrors of this matrix is being exposed buy the army of matrix seers. We will raise others up and not be part of their destruction or greedy selfish ways. That isn’t what life is about.
Poor consumer: please, we need help. COLA is too high 🥭: I’ve called interest rates at 10%, thank me *banks cancel high risk accounts and slash limits* Poor consumer: no not like that, now I can’t buy shit. This’ll be catastrophic if it somehow happens
I think you should consider a few other variables. 1) My 2.6% COLA ~ after Medicare ~ was so small I won’t bother to calculate it! The moral of this story: you will be a negative run rate day one. 2) RMD’s. This is when you have to pay the tax on all the money you’ve saved. I make my first RMD this coming year, and my Certified Fiancial Planner (free via Fidelity) said I could estimate 4% per year tax to be paid on RMD’s. Be mindful this percentage was a guesstimate. I’ll get more of a feel (hopefully) this time next year.
Not for COLA, no they didn't. If you got a promotion coincidentally or something, that needs to be compared to the same position's salary last year, not your other different position.
Wait for OKLO to get back down to $20-30 within the next 2-3 years depending on how fast they get their COLA. Just replace all those risk with RKLB, thank me in a year. Large cap just go mainly Google, then Amazon, then Nvidia, Then Microsoft and Broadcom. Depending on how much money you have go 50-70% VOO. This is not financial advice 😂
Blew the clutch on my truck cause I was hot dogging it. Quoted $2,100. Bad timing. Lost middle class job - over hiring in 2022 (me), then 2024 COLA’s. Anyways, working 70hr weeks at the time, two jobs, and like $100 left over after rent and no groceries if I didn’t blow $50 of it on whiskey at the bar. I was sitting with my buddy and he was like, I will help you. Got it on jacks. Used our friend’s barn. Smoked our asses off, dropped the tranny; we only had enough energy for like an hour every night. A little here and there. Clutch and flywheel replaced. $200.
Probably a combination of things over a 10-20 year period. Higher taxes, slow the rate of spending or even cut spending. I’d likely cut military spending, raise corporate taxes, raise individual taxes, walk a fine line of inflating the dollar above the target rate without spiking the interest rate on the debt. Rework the entire healthcare system to match more successful systems. Slowly erode entitlements by raising the age or capping benefits, lower multipliers for COLA, and pray while I do all that I don’t slow growth too much. It’s a challenge there is no “good” way out of having a debt burden that is 120% your annual “salary”. A combination of all of these is what is likely to happen as incentives are never aligned to make big bold moves at any given time so it will be 100’s of small things that all suck over a long period of time. How would you do it?
What your opinion on annuities with a COLA? I'm inclined not to buy-in, but I feel I can handle another 20% drop.
MANGO SAID: - MCDONALD’S HAS THE BEST COCA-COLA Bros a fat ass, who TF asked him who has the best coca cola
For interested parties that want to know the path forward for OKLO: With the DOE selecting OKLO for their nuclear project, OKLO is moving forward with building a reactor with criticality (reactor is running) in the summer of 2026 ( about eight months away). They cant sell electricity without a COLA and NRC approval, but they can have a working reactor with DOE approval. They already have the fuel for this first reactor. After having a working reactor, OKLO is betting that the NRC approval will happen faster since they will have a working model rather than a design on paper. After NRC approval, all that is required is to hook up their reactor to the electric grid and do all the necessary startup testing. I have no clue as to what the OKLO stock is worth, I made my money this year and got out.
OKLO expectations for call is a very low bar and likely already baked in, wouldn’t be surprised if we see $130-$140 by end of week. Especially since they can submit COLA later this week when the government reopens.
Their actively building right now, so that’s not true. My best guess is COLA submission or a significant partnership.
OKLO can finally submit COLA once gov reopens… huge catalyst
OKLO can finally submit COLA once gov reopens… huge catalyst
OKLO hopefully to announce COLA submission soon once gov reopens
Fluor is selling off their SMR stake, which is causing an early dip in nuclear sector, still think OKLO COLA submission will drive $150+
OKLO can submit COLA once shutdown is over- $150+ when that happened
[WISeKey International Holding AG (Nasdaq: WKEY) and Columbus Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: COLA) Execute Business Combination Agreement to Publicly List WISeKey’s Subsidiary WISeSat.Space Corp. Under The Name WISeSat.Space Holdings Corp.](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/11/10/3184580/0/en/WISeKey-International-Holding-AG-Nasdaq-WKEY-and-Columbus-Acquisition-Corp-Nasdaq-COLA-Execute-Business-Combination-Agreement-to-Publicly-List-WISeKey-s-Subsidiary-WISeSat-Space-Co.html) \- COLA COLAR
Government shutdown will now allow them to submit their COLA, which has been holding things up.
OKLO $150+ this week, shutdown ending means they can finally submit COLA
The problem is the logic of the question. For you to estimate any of the points in the last paragraph you'd have to specifically be talking about timing the market. If not now, when? Would you rather ride the ups and downs and come out the other side with a modicum of ownership and returns? Or would you rather keep money out entirely and watch the slow grind of inflation + COLA destroy your "interest"?
That makes more sense. Probably pretty close with the COLA adjustments. I’d take a look at a retirement Target date fund that your broker offers and pick the one for the year you’re going to retire.
Wife is 100% $4k I’m 40% $1k then figuring COLA of 3% x 14 years. $5,000 x 1.42 is $7100.
Wife is 100% $4k I’m 40% $1k then figuring COLA of 3% x 14 years. $5,000 x 1.42 is $7100.
OKLO $130 Monday open after shutdown- allows for COLA submission finally
OKLO $130 Monday open after shutdown, allows them to submit COLA
OKLO $130 Monday open after shutdown, allows them to submit COLA- huge
OKLO COLA submission soon, $150+
I’ve never worked somewhere that didn’t do atleast 3-4% as the COLA, the 1-4% more for merit. My current job gives COLA based on the Cost of living index. We’ve been very lucky that in 21,22 and 23’ the index was super high 2021 9%, 2022 it was 11%, 2023 6%. My salary has gone up around 45k in the last 4 years but so has life overall, just lucky they actually give raises the way they do here.
Most important comment I felt was the driving in the fog. Clearly showing lack of data more likely to pause than perhaps intended purpose of accelerating more cuts. That comment makes the most sense and why perhaps there shouldn’t have been a rate cut this month since we got CPI (due to COLA) but no PPI used to extrapolate and understand CPI.
Local OKLO bottom, COLA submission soon
I thought they let CPI be released so that social security recipients can get their beloved COLA adjustments, otherwise they'd miss out on a cost of living adjustment?
What’s this talk about COLA bump?? Like a coke bump??
Starting in January, the average monthly check for the nation’s 53 million retired recipients will be $2,064, up $56 from this year, the Social Security Administration said Friday. The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, follows this year’s 2.5% increase, which was the smallest in four years.
Inflation still raging, yet 2.8% social security COLA. Looks like I won’t be getting a crisp $100 bill from meemaw for Christmas.
Also, we dont want to have to increase COLA toooo much next year. Poors still need to be poor
Yes retard.. they need it for COLA for social security adjustments. How do I lose more money than people who don’t know anything about the market.
CPI to be published due to social security COLA
Nope, COLA application submission soon, PPA conversions and/or more partnerships- lots of catalysts right now.
As long as we live. If my wife passed before me I’d loose her portion ($4100 of the $5100). That number increases with COLA.
OKLO sits on milestones and news, wouldn’t be surprised if something big is announced tomorrow- could be COLA submission, partnerships (up to OpenAI) or business milestones
OKLO’s COLA submission any day now
Yes, they’re (BLS) making an exception (or trying to) for September’s CPI, it’s being pushed to October 24 so the Social Security Administration (SSA) can compute the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA). So maybe some data?
OKLO’s COLA submission to the NRC is any day now- looking forward to the morning they announce
You’re doing this before all of the major catalysts ahead (COLA, Partnerships, PPA conversions) I would do the exact opposite.
Social Security needs it for COLA so BLS was called back to do this month's report. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/business/economy/inflation-report-release-shutdown.html
This blog has a great writeup and a simple Google sheet for evaluating pension/annuity versus lump sum: https://earlyretirementnow.com/2023/02/06/evaluating-annuities-pensions-social-security-swr-series-part-56/ Here are some additional details that are required to get any accurate response to your question: 1. Is the lump sum payable immediately or at a certain age? 2. When would the monthly option start paying, immediately or at a certain age? 3. Do you have a spouse and does the monthly option have a spousal benefit? 4. If so, what is the spousal payment? Is there any inflation/COLA adjustment on the monthly benefit? 5. Are you male or female (this affects your life expectancy)? Even assuming the $230 a month is immediate, the calculator I linked above seems to indicate that the lump sum is better. And if you have a spouse, they would appreciate having the lump sum in an investment account rather than a monthly payment that disappears when you die.
I have a VA Pension that's $4300 currently and with COLA should be around $8, 000 in 25/30 years as well.
For DoD and DOE builds, yeah. However Oklo will be submitting their COLA to NRC soon for commercial.
Progress * They **broke ground** on their first commercial Aurora reactor (Aurora-INL) at Idaho National Laboratory. Construction is underway. * They completed the **NRC Readiness Assessment Phase 1** for their Combined License Application (COLA); meaning they’ve satisfied several pre-application regulatory requirements. * Their NRC “Principal Design Criteria” report (setting safety, reliability, and performance requirements) was accepted for review under an accelerated timeline.
For me, it's not about worrying that it won't be there but rather a means to increase the overall odds of success. Also, my pension doesn't have a COLA so in real dollars it essentially does vanish over time.
Shorts covering, COLA submission soon, and speculation surrounding OpenAI partnership and/or gov contracts
You're all sheep. Everything's a distraction. RELEASE THE COCA COLA RECIPE!
Everyone is waiting on Cost Of Living Allowance COLA raises in Q1 to offset goods inflation now. 2.7% COLA raise for 2026?
But they don’t really have either of those - they got rejected for a COLA and they’ve only agreed to review it. None of the major catalysts this week have mentioned OKLO once
My current COLA that's what I need at least too. With inflation that number may go up to $30M if there's 1 or 2 major printing episodes in the US. But those living in cheaper areas people can probably get by with a lot less.