Importantly, RET amounts generally increase each year to account for changes in national wage levels. The trustee estimate ...

The Social Security fund will run dry in 2033, unless Congress combines the program's old-age and disability funds, in which ...

The Social Security shortfall date just moved a little bit nearer. New federal projections, released on June 18, show that ...

The Social Security trustees say the program is still solvent, but Trump immigration and tax policies could deliver serious ...

Some lawmakers have suggested raising the Social Security tax rate. Currently, that tax rate is 12.4% on wages up to a certain cap, split evenly between employers and employees (though self-employed ...

Under an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in March—titled "Modernizing Payments To and From America's Bank Account"—all federal disbursements, including Social Security, SSI, SSDI, ...

Millions of retired teachers, firefighters, police officers and others with public pensions will be reaping the benefits of the recently passed Social Security Fairness Act sooner than first ...

Certain aspects of Social Security are revised each year to keep benefit payments aligned with inflation and wages. While those changes are most consequential for retirees and other beneficiaries ...

1. The Social Security Fairness Act was signed into law Social Security’s rules were long designed so that public employees weren’t double dipping by collecting generous pensions and monthly ...

The Social Security Administration has frozen a program that automatically processes Social Security cards and sends them through the mail for certain people, such as newly naturalized U.S ...

Aliss Higham is a Newsweek reporter based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her focus is reporting on Social Security, other government benefits and personal finance. She has previously extensively covered U ...