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Everyday Wealth

Who benefits from rising interest rates?

Everyday Wealth

Jean Chatzky

Investing, Business, Education

2935 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Jean, Soledad, and Edelman Financial Engines wealth planner Rose Niang discuss what happens when interest rates rise and what the possible upsides are, including potential extra money for savers and social security recipients.

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0:00.0

This is Edelman Financial Engine's everyday wealth, with award-winning journalist Soledad O'Brien,

0:12.8

personal finance expert Jean Chatsky,

0:15.3

and Edelman Financial Engine's wealth planner Rose Nyeung.

0:20.1

Rose, I look toward the end of September. We know that there is another hike coming, barring some really significant and surprising news.

0:31.0

Is there any good news that comes with another rate hike?

0:35.0

There are definitely a silver lining.

0:38.0

As we know, we have been in a rising interest rate environment

0:42.0

since the second quarter of this year as

0:44.4

inflation keeps climbing as you've mentioned gene the Fed is really trying to get a

0:49.6

grip on inflation and cool down the economy a bit. So if you are saving money as we've

0:55.0

been telling you over the past you know a few months and making sure that you have a

0:58.8

good emergency fund you should be looking forward to those savings accounts are having a little bit of a higher

1:05.5

interest rate. If you are a Social Security recipient you should be looking forward to the biggest

1:12.0

increase in your monthly payments in quite a while.

1:15.3

As you know, the cost of living adjustments on Social Security or COLA are tied to inflation and

1:22.0

they are set to be over 9% in 2023 according to the Senior Citizens League.

1:28.0

With inflation being at a 40 year high and as Solidad you mentioned we are all feeling the effects of it an increase of an average of a hundred and fifty nine dollars a month will come very helpful to those who are collecting Social Security.

1:41.0

And it's just important to keep in mind that the SSA COLA is actually based on inflation

1:47.1

readings from July, August, and September.

1:50.4

So Rose, with this new increase, does it change the advice you might give me say if I had planned to delay

1:57.8

getting Social Security I mean with this with this new COLA it might be more attractive to do it earlier.

2:04.8

Not necessarily.

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