A group of Democratic lawmakers is warning that changes at the SSA are pushing its customer service system into crisis.

Readers are always asking me if I could recommend a good book about Social Security. I always steer them to the best book out ...

Until now, Social Security has been the one retirement check you didn’t have to worry about. You paid in, you got your benefits, end of story. But now that the bargain is under real pressure. The ...

Social Security rule for retirees explained: A new law, the Social Security Fairness Act, is boosting benefits for public sector workers. This change removes penalties for those with pensions from ...

Millions of beneficiaries who rely on Social Security’s monthly payments will be impacted as the agency has now taken full ...

The Social Security trust fund just got a year closer to running short of money, and the new timeline is specific enough that retirees and near-retirees should take it seriously. The Congressional ...

Most retirees know the basics: claim early and get less, wait and get more. But a law signed in early 2025 rewrote rules that had quietly penalized millions of public workers for decades, and the ...