With a little more than a month before the 2025 COLA kicks in, here's what you should know about the upcoming adjustment.

While seniors will get their regularly scheduled benefit checks this month, 2025 brings an entirely new cost-of-living adjustment for beneficiaries.

Broadly speaking, the older you are, the less exposure to the stock market you're supposed to take on. When you need safety and certainty, more reliable investments like interest-bearing bonds and even higher-yielding cash balances are prioritized. And understandably so.