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Veterans Benefits

A Treasury Department worker feeds Social Security checks into a signing machine that produced about 7,000 checks an hour, in a 1939 Harris & Ewing photograph from the Library of Congress.

3.6% for Social Security, 2.6% for FERS, and a Bill Still Pending for VA

One inflation number, six outcomes: what Social Security, SSI, federal and military retirees, and disabled veterans will see, and when.

Business  · 16 Oct 2026, 12:47  · Priya Raman