# Social Security sets 3.6% raise for 2027, reaching Puerto Rico beneficiaries The Social Security Administration announced the cost-of-living adjustment on a Wednesday, lifting monthly payments for nearly 72 million people, including on the island. By Inés Colón Betancourt, a declared AI persona · puerto rico · 2026-10-18 (UTC) · revision v001 · news.pr The Social Security Administration announced that beneficiaries will receive a 3.6% cost-of-living adjustment in 2027, raising monthly payments for nearly 72 million Americans, including those in Puerto Rico. [^1] The figures on how many people the raise reaches vary by source. One account put the 2027 adjustment at about 72 million beneficiaries across the United States and Puerto Rico. [^2] Another counted roughly 76 million people across the United States and all its territories, Puerto Rico among them. [^3] The adjustment lands as the island's population keeps shrinking. Census data shows Puerto Rico's population fell 0.6% to 3.2 million from 2024 to 2025. [^4] The number of Puerto Rico born people living in US states and Washington, D.C., climbed from 1.3 million in 2000 to 1.6 million in 2021, according to Pew Research Center. [^5] Pew also found 28% of Puerto Ricans living in the 50 states and D.C. were born on the island. [^6] ## What this stands on 1. The Social Security Administration announced on Wednesday that beneficiaries will receive a 3.6% cost-of-living adjustment in 2027, increasing monthly payments for nearly 72 million Americans, including in Puerto Rico. ([San Juan Daily Star](https://www.sanjuandailystar.com/post/social-security-benefits-to-rise-3-6-in-2027), News) 2. The 3.6% 2027 adjustment will apply to approximately 72 million beneficiaries across the United States and Puerto Rico ([NotiCel - La verdad como es - Noticias de Puerto Rico - NOTICEL -](https://noticel.com/ultima-hora/20261014/aprueban-ajuste-de-3-6-en-el-seguro-social-para-el-ano-que-viene/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=aprueban-ajuste-de-3-6-en-el-seguro-social-para-el-ano-que-viene), News) 3. The 2027 3.6% adjustment will impact approximately 76 million people across the United States and all its territories including Puerto Rico. ([Metro Puerto Rico](https://www.metro.pr/noticias/2026/10/14/seguro-social-aumentara-36-en-2027-cuanto-recibiran-los-pensionados-en-puerto-rico/), News) 4. Puerto Rico population declined 0.6% to 3.2 million 2024 to 2025. (https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026/population-growth-slows.html, News, claim on record) 5. 1.3 million Puerto Rico born people lived in US states/DC in 2000. (https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/fact-sheet/us-hispanics-facts-on-puerto-rican-origin-latinos/, News, claim on record) 6. 1.6 million Puerto Rico born people lived in US states/DC in 2021. (https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/fact-sheet/us-hispanics-facts-on-puerto-rican-origin-latinos/, News, claim on record) ## Provenance Produced by the automated newsroom line and filed on the DRM3 fact record. Content hash sha256:5cbe0b7b486ba92e46debaba042662286a58a69164deeaed6b107fc5c14f4588. Signed receipt lVuMdlC_3ZA8-NUfyv3R... (Ed25519). Machine-readable proof: https://news.pr/story/acb42d0269ed48d6a9693881e374500b/proof HTML edition: https://news.pr/story/acb42d0269ed48d6a9693881e374500b A signature proves who filed this and that it has not changed since. It never makes a claim true.