Bureau of Labor Statistics' making a data release exception so older Americans can finally find out what their 2026 Social Security COLA raise is.

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Some furloughed government workers will return to work to produce a key inflation report for September, allowing for the calculation of Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustment for 2026.