If you claim Social Security ahead of full retirement age and reduce your monthly benefit for life as a result, you may end ...

Social Security's retired-worker benefit made history, with the average payout topping $2,000 for the first time since the ...

Social Security is dipping into its trust fund to pay current retirees, with spending outpacing its revenue from payroll ...

Retirement and disability funds face depletion in the next decade, with Congress urged to act to correct the looming ...

The Social Security shortfall date just moved a little nearer. New federal projection released June 18 show the combined ...

This includes Social Security payments, a small number of which are still issued via paper checks. Critics of the policy have ...

If you have at least 35 years of earnings at or above the threshold, you may be in line for the maximum possible benefit in ...

The changes are the latest sign of the agency’s struggle with website crashes, overloaded servers and long lines at field ...

Some supporters of Social Security privatization suggest allowing workers to invest a portion of their current contributions ...

Social Security will not be able to fully pay monthly benefits to tens of millions of retirees and people with disabilities ...

The nation’s key program for retiree benefits continues to see financing shortfalls. Unless Congress acts, those drops could ...

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