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Social Security benefits will increase by 0.3 percent beginning with the December 2016 benefits, which are payable in January 2017. Federal SSI payment levels will also increase by 0.3 percent effective for payments made for January 2017.
That's because changing Social Security benefits required an act of Congress-literally. It took until 1950 for Congress to approve the first adjustment to Social Security benefits, an across-the-board increase of 77%. 3 Future increases were far from annual and also required Congress to pass legislation.