The government shutdown has already forced the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to delay the September jobs report, and if the impasse continues, next month’s report could be postponed as well. While other key inflation indicators such as the producer price index and import and export prices are expected to remain on hold, today the BLS announced it will publish the September 2025 Consumer Price Index on Friday, October 24, 2025 at 8:30am ET. Release of the CPI data ensures the Social Security Administration can meet statutory deadlines to calculate the 2026 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for the social security benefits of tens of millions of retirees and so that the Treasury Department can make monthly inflation-based adjustments for Treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS), and the federal savings bonds known as I bonds.
