NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — Social Security recipients will get a modest 1.3% cost-of-living increase in 2021.
That works out to an increase of about $20 a month for the average retired worker.
It's the lowest cost-of-living adjustment since 2016, when the increase was just 0.3%. The following years the adjustment was 2.0%, 2.8% and 1.6%.
More than 64 million Social Security beneficiaries will see the adjustment starting in January 2021, while increased payments to more than 8 million Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries will begin on Dec. 31, 2020.
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The Social Security Administration also announced Tuesday that the maximum amount of earnings subject to the Social Security tax will increase to $142,800 from $137,700.
To view your payments visit socialsecurity.gov/myaccount.
Information about Medicare changes for 2021 have not yet been released.
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