What Is The Social Security Increase For 2025 With Inflation. Social security benefits will increase by 2.5 percent beginning with the december 2024 benefits, which are payable in january 2025. The maximum amount of earnings subject to social security tax (taxable maximum) will increase to $176,100 from $168,600.
That’s down from 3.2% this year but in line with the 2.6% average over the past two decades. The increase from 301.236 to 308.729 is roughly 2.49%, which is how we end up with the 2.5% cola for 2025.