Social Security benefits are at risk for a "crisis" of cuts in the next decade. Here's what lawmakers say now about ...

In a few weeks, some 65 million Social Security recipients will find out how big of a raise they’re getting in 2024.

There will be more of this ahead. A new report from pension consultants Milliman argues that the top 100 state and local ...

Social Security and Medicare are known as third rails of American politics for a reason. Reducing benefits is very unpopular, but higher taxes are divisive, too — and without at least one of those two ...

Social Security checks will continue to be mailed even when the rest of the federal government stops getting its funding from Congress.

For most seniors, Social Security income is a necessity. Based on more than two decades of annual surveys by national ...

Social Security's trust funds are projected to be depleted by 2033, at which point retirees would see a significant cut to ...

Until Congress stops sending monthly checks to wealthy seniors, everything else will be on the chopping block.

Hard-right Republicans who represent a sliver of the U.S. are set to send the entire country into a federal government ...

It also calls for the establishment of a “bipartisan debt commission” to crack down on Social Security and Medicare.

Don’t worry, senior citizens. You’ll still get your Social Security checks if the federal government shuts down next week.

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