Entity

Social Security

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 26 domains, including AI Inference Infrastructure, AI Policy and Banking Fintech.

As of 8 Oct 2026Last evidence 7 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • 2027’s Social Security COLA Raise Is Announced in October. Here’s What a $2,000 Check Could Become

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 1 event and claims involving Social Security

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 36 mentions on 8 Oct 2026, against 31 on 17 Sept 2026 (+16%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Social Security yet.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 7 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

813 documents · 184 publishers · 18% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 7 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.178: about 82% of mentions carry no typed assertion

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Social Security

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

MedicareIRSInflationRothTreasuryTrumpCola
  • Medicare · 260 shared documents
  • IRS · 199 shared documents
  • Inflation · 163 shared documents
  • Roth · 151 shared documents
  • Treasury · 137 shared documents
  • Required Minimum Distribution · 136 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Tax Bill · 132 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Irmaa · 124 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Trump · 118 shared documents
  • Cola · 115 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +100% from 30 Aug 2026 to 8 Oct 2026, between 5 and 42 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Social Security, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about Social Security yet. Ask about Social Security

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/4a8d0b3d2c4bfab8118b146a returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name social security.

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  "label": "Social Security",
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  "mentions": 36,
  "domains": 26,
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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-08T21:52:38.794589+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
  },
  "coverageTrend": "rising",
  "whereFrom": {
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    "label": "36 mentions across 26 domains",
    "children": [
      {
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        "label": "6 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
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        }
      },
      {
        "level": "domains",
        "label": "26 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 18,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 30 mentions",
        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
      }
    ]
  }
}

The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Social Security

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • 2027’s Social Security COLA Raise Is Announced in October. Here’s What a $2,000 Check Could Become

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from Social Security

Open where it comes from, follow a claim or a related name, and use the trail to come back. Every step says what it is, how it stands and when. Machines read the same record.

Social Security

Entity.

Evidence
813 documents · 184 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 10 Jun 2026, last seen 7 Oct 2026
Measured
18% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
8 Oct 2026
11 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (1)

  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

Watch this

What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Social Security, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

What it connects to

Related records.

Pull a thread

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 8 Oct 2026.