If the CPI-W increases more than 0.1% year over year between the third quarter of the previous year and the third quarter of the current year, then Social Security will raise benefits by the same amount. The adjustment helped benefits keep pace with inflation and is based on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) as calculated by the U.S. The big news for 2022 is that nearly 70 million Social Security recipients will see reflected in their monthly benefits the largest cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) since Ronald Reagan's first term in office in 1982. It now takes $1,510 to earn a single Social Security credit, up just $40 from 2021. The collection of the social security number on this form is imperative for the Division of Workers Compensations performance of its duties and responsibilities as prescribed by law.Social Security tax rates remain the same for 2022: 6.2% on employees and 12.4% on the self-employed.
Social Security recipients will get a 5.9% raise for 2022, compared with the 1.3% hike that beneficiaries received in 2021.