Social Security rules aim to make it so benefits reward all workers equally. There's growing support in Congress to revisit ...

The Social Security Administration recently announced several key changes to the program for 2025. Here's what you need to ...

Donald Trump's plans could undermine Social Security's financial stability and lead to a large benefits cut, nonpartisan ...

Despite Social Security's wide reach, a small but vulnerable group of elderly Americans never receives its benefits.

Those receiving spousal benefits can expect to receive the same increase the primary spouse receives to their retired worker benefits.

Congress changed a law in 1977 allowing a widow who remarries to continue collecting benefits from her first husband’s Social ...

I spent the majority of my adult life, nearly 37 years, taking and processing all manner of Social Security and Supplemental ...

Social Security checks are a lifeline for millions of American retirees. But for many of them, there’s a messy catch: Uncle ...

Q: My mother told me she remembers a time when women had to “live in sin” (those are her words) to avoid losing Social Security benefits. She couldn’t elaborate, but she thinks some senior women still ...

An adult child cannot inherit a parent’s Social Security benefits after the parent dies. Only adult children with ...

Social Security beneficiaries will get two checks in November but nothing in December because of the calendar. More on this ...

It has to do with the payment of Social Security widow’s benefits. And it makes a good story about how Social Security and ...