Financial advisor Dave Ramsey and the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) have issued stark warnings about the ...

The two main ways to fix Social Security are to shrink benefits or increase revenue coming into the coffers. The Committee ...

Most Americans can't answer simple questions about what will happen when Social Security's reserves run dry in 2033.

Social Security celebrated its 90th anniversary Thursday, marking a major milestone for the program that supplies monthly benefit checks to almost 70 million senior citizens, disabled people and ...

Once the trust fund falls to zero, Social Security is only legally allowed to pay out as much in benefits as it brings in.

The Senior Citizens League is predicting a 2.7 percent COLA for 2026. While this would be a slight increase from the 2.5 ...

The U.S. Senate had yet another vote to pass a measure that would allow the federal government to reopen on Oct. 20. We are ...

Words like “ignorant,” “clueless,” “stupid,” “idiotic, “inane,” “moronic,” or “asinine” are harsh. They should not be used in ...

The Social Security Administration has been impacted by the ongoing government shutdown. How does it affect payments and ...

A broken budget process and decades of tax cuts have pushed Social Security and Medicare toward insolvency. Credit: iStock September in Washington means lawmakers scrambling to keep the government’s ...

A view of a Social Security Administration building in Burbank, Calif., on Nov. 5, 2020. (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images) The Social Security Administration is facing issues tied to IT ...

Lucy Lazarony is an experienced personal finance journalist and writer who got her start in 1998 writing about financial topics. She writes accessible and easy-to-understand articles about credit, ...