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With the release of October 2025 data on November 13, 2025, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will remove long-term care (LTC) insurance from the health insurance index. Changes in the market for LTC insurance have made it out of scope and ineligible for pricing in the CPI market basket.
With the release of July 2025 data on August 12, 2025, BLS has replaced survey data collected for the CPI’s wireless telephone services index with secondary source data and non-traditional index methods.
The paper Use of alternative data and methods in the CPI for wireless telephone services is now available, as is a new factsheet Measuring Price Change in the CPI: Wireless Telephone Services.
Effective with the release of April 2025 data on May 13, 2025, BLS has replaced the survey data collected for the CPI’s leased cars and trucks index with transaction data purchased from a vendor to increase the accuracy of the index.
The Measuring Price Change in the CPI: Leased cars and trucks factsheet has been updated to reflect these changes.
Last Modified Date: August 12, 2025