What Exactly Is a “Trump Bump” COLA?
Social Security’s COLA exists to protect beneficiaries from inflation. It’s calculated using the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), based on the average reading from July, August, and September of the current year compared to the same period the year before. If prices for the goods and services seniors typically buy rise by a given percentage, benefits are supposed to rise by roughly the same amount the following January.
In 2026, that formula produced a 2.8% COLA. According to retirement-focused financial analysts, part of that increase traced back to President Trump’s April 2025 tariff and trade policy, which imposed a sweeping global tariff along with higher reciprocal tariffs on dozens of countries. Even though most of those specific tariffs were later struck down by a February 2026 Supreme Court ruling, the inflationary pressure they added to consumer prices in the meantime still fed into the 2026 COLA calculation.
Now, heading into 2027, a similar dynamic is playing out — but with an added, more serious ingredient.
Oh stop. Bidenflation is why prices are so high. He also owns the highest gas prices in history.
You expect President Trump to fix the horrible policies demoncrats put on us.
You’ll probably vote for socialism in the midterms and in ’28,and that will be the final nail in the coffin.
demoncrats HATE America and I blame people like YOU who vote for those communists.
I did comment but it disappeared. I didn’t get that so called $90 raise. All just talk@
I did not get the $90 supposively raise. All just talk.
Medicare for all, free education etc. the socialists democratic party want’s will make the existing $40 Trillion national debt look like nothing if all those items were implemented. The cost of all those government run programs would cost 50-75 trillion more you idiot. As far as job market goes, you obviously have not been looking there are plenty of jobs available. Companys all over have hiring signs. I get it you may not want to do what is being offered because your probably to lazy to work.
You’re getting the SS raise “BECAUSE” everything went up in cost.