In a significant policy shift, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has decided to continue issuing paper checks, ...

Social Security benefits have lost 20% of their purchasing power since 2010, making it harder for retirees to keep up with ...

The discrepancy between how much you can receive from Social Security at each age is amplified when you look at the maximum ...

Social Security may run short by 2034. Experts have suggested boosting FICA taxes, raising wage cap and delaying retirement ...

Libya has the highest official retirement age in the world, and Denmark will soon join it. The United States isn’t too far ...

John Gilbert Winant, the ambassador to Great Britain in the early 1940s, became the first head of the Social Security ...

Social Security spousal benefits allow someone to receive up to 50% of their partner's PIA. However, similar to standard ...

When applying for Social Security, consider the new enhanced deduction for people age 65 and older, as well as your health, ...

Projections from a board of trustees of the program’s accounts reported last month that the combined trust funds for Social ...

Currently, only the first $176,100 of a worker's annual income is subject to the 6.2 percent Social Security payroll tax, which is matched by employers to make a total contribution of 12.4 percent.

The watchdog group noted that without entitlement reform, the actual size of the benefit loss would vary based on a couple’s ...