{"id":475,"date":"2026-01-04T19:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T19:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2026-01-04T19:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T19:28:10","slug":"social-security-announces-new-cost-of-living-adjustment-cola-checks-what-you-need-to-know-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"Social Security Announces New Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Checks \u2013 What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A big raise is finally coming to millions of Social Security recipients. But before anyone celebrates, the fine print delivers a gut punch. Yes, checks will go up\u2014but so will the bills that swallow them. Retirees, disabled workers, and survivors are asking the same question: will this even be enough to brea\u2026 <strong>Continues\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big raise is finally coming to millions of Social Security recipients. But before anyone celebrates, the fine print delivers a gut punch. Yes, checks will go up\u2014but so will &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}