Social Security recipients can expect a raise in 2026, with the latest cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) set to take effect in January. Beneficiaries will see their payments increase by 2.8% next year, ...

The delays in service are largely the result of staff firings, coupled with little training for transferred staff.

His Full Retirement Age was 66 and his intent was to retire at 70 and claim Social Security benefit at that time. We owned a ...

Social Security retirees are at risk of an impending benefits shortfall that could have serious financial consequences.

The Social Security Administration began the second Trump administration with a hostile takeover. It ends the year in turmoil ...

Right now, Social Security is failing seniors in important ways — and the situation is only likely to get worse. ...

During the latter part of 2025, the Fed made three consecutive cuts to its benchmark interest rate. Those cuts came on the ...

The problem that retirees must deal with in 2026 relates to the rules that determine when the federal government charges taxes on Social Security benefits. Specifically, a growing number of older ...

The 'Social Security squeeze' is coming for your benefits. Can the program's most existential problems be solved? There are more older Americans than ever, and not enough younger ones. There are lots ...

Like all savers, the Social Security program benefits from high interest rates. Money paid into the Social Security system is invested in bonds and other high-quality securities that pay interest.

In his 1998 State of the Union address, President Clinton waved his pen at the assembled Congress and declared that we must "save Social Security first." Democrats have since generally clung to that ...