DOGE reforms under Trump cut SSA staff, closed offices, and tightened overpayment rules, making it harder for vulnerable ...

More than 72 million Americans get Social Security benefits. CBS News business analyst Jill Schelsinger joins "CBS Mornings" ...

The president will try to unify divided House Republicans on the multitrillion-dollar package that is at risk of collapsing ...

The agency currently has a backlog of approximately 575,000 applications thanks to a prior policy involved in the application ...

A second amendment came on April 14, when the SSA announced that anyone wishing to apply for Social Security or make account ...

The full retirement age for Social Security – the age in which you get 100% of the program's benefits – has risen over recent years.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) said it would no longer hold retirement benefit applications for three days to check ...

Four out of 10 Social Security beneficiaries pay income tax on a portion of their benefits, according to the Social Security Administration. While on the campaign trail last ...

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says that Social Security has a payment accuracy rate of over 99%, and that only 0 ...

A new Congressional Budget Office analysis confirms that Republican-led proposals to slash Medicaid could strip health coverage from up to 8.6 million Americans, prompting sharp criticism from ...

A month after instituting a controversial anti-fraud policy that sparked widespread concern among senior citizens, the Social ...

A foundational change to Social Security presented by President Trump would fundamentally weaken the program's financial ...