The Social Security program, a crucial safety net for over 73 million Americans, faces a critical juncture. Demographic and ...

The Social Security system in the United States is undergoing significant transformations, impacting millions of Americans.

1. Monthly check gets a modest bump. The 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in January 2025 raises the average retired worker’s benefit by an estimated $49 per month, to $1,976 per month.. The ...

Social Security is one of the biggest issues politicians in Washington must address in the next few years. Many retirees are feeling the pressure on their budgets due to rising inflation, despite ...

Get expert advice on Social Security benefits and answers to common questions. 90-day grace period The 50 percent withholding applies to overpayments of retirement benefits, survivor benefits, family ...

As such, around 2.8 million Social Security beneficiaries will now get to welcome an increase to their monthly benefit checks thanks to the new Social Security Fairness Act. It should be noted, ...

Social Security recipients who defaulted on their federal student loans are no longer at risk of having their monthly benefits reduced, at least for the time being. Last month, the Department of ...

Early this year, near the end of his term in office, President Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act, a law that ended the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset ...

In a press release from April 29, the SSA stated that, “SSA has made significant strides in implementing the Social Security Fairness Act, having paid over $14.8 billion in retroactive payments to ...

The Supreme Court, on Friday, for now gave the DOGE team launched by Elon Musk unfettered access to information collected by the Social Security Administration, data that includes Social Security ...

The Supreme Court cleared the way Friday for the Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans.

The Supreme Court handed the Department of Government Efficiency a pair of significant wins on Friday, allowing the entity to access sensitive Social Security data for millions of Americans while ...