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  "id": 15419320,
  "title": "Social Security's COLA Tracks Working Households, Not Retirees. Here's How Much Bigger 2024's Raise Would Have Been.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/18/social-securitys-cola-tracks-working-households-not-retirees-heres-15419320",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-18T11:35:00.000Z",
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    "url": "https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/social-securitys-cola-tracks-working-households-not-retirees-heres-how-much-bigger-2024s"
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  "summary": "Key PointsSocial Security beneficiaries will see a 3.6% increase in their current payments beginning in January 2027.",
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        "title": "Social Security's COLA Tracks Working Households, Not Retirees. Here's How Much Bigger 2024's Raise Would Have Been.",
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        "published": "2026-10-18T11:15:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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