Commentary AARP: Social Security COLA Critically Important to Beneficiaries by Gary Kopycinski on October 16, 2012 Gary Kopycinski Author More in Commentary: Heteronormativity: Grappling with Straight Privilege March 24, 2026 Former Park Forest Mayor Ostenburg Implores Chicago Cardinal Cupich to Care for St. Irenaeus Property December 16, 2025 An Angel Now Guards Our Friends in Blue: Park Forest Mourns the Loss of #204, Detective Tim Jones December 4, 2025 Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 16, 2012. AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond offered the following statement reacting to today’s announcement by the Social Security Administration of a 1.7% Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for 2013: