are social security recipients getting a raise in 2021?
A critical time for Social Security's 2021 COLAs June's CPI-W reading of 251.054 compares to a three-month average from July 2019 to September 2019 of 250.200. Therefore, if the inflation benchmark stays constant over the next three months, then Social Security recipients would get a modest 0.3% COLA for 2021.