Data Update Schedule

Benefit amounts, income limits and premiums change on a schedule set by each government agency. This page shows, for every page on our site, which official figures it uses, whether those figures are current, and when we will update them next.

Our rule: when an agency publishes new figures, we check them against the official source and update the affected pages within 4 days. When new figures take effect later (for example, numbers announced in October for January), we add them within 4 days and switch our calculators over on the date they take effect. Until then, pages keep showing the figures still in effect. We never publish an estimate before the official number is out.

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Sorted by the date we plan to update. Release dates marked "estimated" are based on when the agency published in past years; we update the plan if an agency publishes early or late.

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How we match pages to releases

A page is linked to a government release when its calculator reads that release's figures, or when the page quotes one of the official figures currently in effect. Pages with no yearly figures, such as how-to guides and legal pages, are still reviewed regularly; the date shown is when we last changed them. You can see every figure we use, with links to the agencies, on our Key Benefit Numbers page.

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Sources

• Social Security Administration: Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA)
• IRS and HHS: ACA Marketplace subsidy rules for the new plan year
• Internal Revenue Service: IRS inflation adjustments for the new tax year
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: Medicare premiums, deductibles and IRMAA
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: Medicaid spousal impoverishment standards
• Department of Veterans Affairs: VA pension and disability compensation rates
• Department of Housing and Urban Development: FHA reverse mortgage (HECM) lending limit
• Department of Veterans Affairs: VA burial and plot allowances
• Bureau of Labor Statistics: BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey
• USDA Rural Development: USDA Section 504 home repair program terms
• Department of Health and Human Services: HHS poverty guidelines
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: Medicare Savings Program income limits
• Federal Communications Commission (USAC): Lifeline income limits
• CareScout (Genworth) Cost of Care Survey: National cost of care survey
• Department of Energy: Weatherization Assistance Program income limits
• Department of Housing and Urban Development: HUD income limits
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: Medicare Part D deductible and out-of-pocket cap
• Department of Health and Human Services (ACF): LIHEAP income limits
• USDA Food and Nutrition Administration: SNAP cost-of-living adjustments

Last reviewed: October 1, 2026, by James Anderson.

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