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 ...

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 ...

Seniors who received a windfall deposit as a result of the Social Security Fairness Act are now finding that the consequences of that unexpected benefit can be costly, especially in Illinois. As a ...

The earlier Social Security fund insolvency date is predicted due to concerns of higher inflation in the coming years.

The repeal of the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset should have restored benefits for everyone. For some retirees, the checks are still coming late or not at all.

Millions of seniors saw their Social Security benefits increase significantly as a result of a 2025 law change. They could be at risk of paying a large Social Security benefit tax this filing season.

Several House Republicans are pushing Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to go to war with the Senate GOP over an election security bill that has little chance of passing the upper chamber under current ...