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Why Did They Cut My Wife's Social Security Benefit in Half, and What Should We Do Next?
You depend on your Social Security checks to stay financially secure in retirement, so it's natural to be worried about ...
Third round of June Social Security payments goes out in three days
The final round of June’s Social Security payments, worth up to $5,108 for the highest-income earners who retire at age 70, ...
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Social Security Now Headed For Insolvency Even Sooner Than Expected
Social Security will be unable to pay full retirement benefits by 2034, one year earlier than previously projected, according ...
Do You Understand These 3 Critical Facts About Social Security COLAs?
The Social Security Administration bases the COLA on the difference in average third-quarter inflation data from one year to ...
Social Security stops reporting call wait times and other metrics
The changes are the latest sign of the agency’s struggle with website crashes, overloaded servers and long lines at field ...
Social Security Makes Major Change to Payments: What to Know
This includes Social Security payments, a small number of which are still issued via paper checks. Critics of the policy have ...
It's Official: Social Security Retired-Worker Benefits Have Made History
For the first time in 90 years, the average monthly check for retired workers has surpassed a psychologically important level ...
Jean Chatzky sends powerful message on Social Security, 401(k)s
Jean Chatzky, former financial editor for NBC’s "Today Show" and now with AARP, recognizes these challenges. She works to ...