Social Security News 2024.  — the social security administration is set to implement new rules to make it easier for beneficiaries to access certain benefits and increase the payments some may receive. Inflation cooled considerably in 2023, but consumer prices still went up, producing a 3.2 percent cola for social security beneficiaries.

 — the nation’s 72 million social security beneficiaries will get a raise starting in 2024 to keep their benefits aligned with inflation. Social security tax wage base jumps 5.2% for 2024;