The Social Security Fairness Act will provide benefit increases to more than 3 million individuals. But it’s uncertain when ...

The Lunar New Year, the Year of the Snake, begins on January 29. Also called Spring Festival, this annual celebration is observed by many Asian cultures. Social Security recipients may see a 2.1% ...

In 2025, children of a deceased parent who were covered under Social Security may be eligible for survivor benefits. These ...

The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for 2025 is the lowest since the post-Covid inflation spike. Yet retirees still ...

It has been my custom for most of the past 27 years to write a year-end column that summarizes the Social Security updates scheduled to take place the following year. I already discussed some of ...

What's more, surveys have shown that Social Security checks are necessary for seniors to make ends meet. A poll from ...

Forget about COLAs for a minute -- because Social Security itself has some big problems. More money is being paid out of its ...

This week, retirees across the United States will receive their monthly Social Security payments. With a significant ...

President Joe Biden recently signed the Social Security Fairness Act, which eliminated the Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision rules. Biden touted the bill as a way ...

This adjustment could result in a modest but meaningful increase in your monthly checks, especially if your prior earnings ...

While people pay into the Social Security system most of their working lives, these benefits aren't always guaranteed, and you can end up losing them in certain situations. In particular ...

An estimated 72.5 million Social Security recipients will benefit from a 2.5 percent increase in their payments this year thanks to the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA).