{
  "id": 462167,
  "title": "Social Security: 2026 bill could save benefits from insolvency—and impact COLA increases. How your checks could change",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/social-security-2026-bill-could-save-benefits-from-insolvency-and",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-10T10:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Fast Company",
    "slug": "fast-company",
    "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91587094/social-security-2100-act-benefits-payments-checks-cola-increase-impact-2026"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Congress has reintroduced the Social Security 2100 Act , a bill that would increase benefits by 2% for some 71 million Americans—including 54 million retired workers and 9 million of their survivors and dependents . The bill would temporarily change how Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) are calculated from 2027 to 2036 in order to better match the real financial pressures…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}