His Full Retirement Age was 66 and his intent was to retire at 70 and claim Social Security benefit at that time. We owned a ...

The delays in service are largely the result of staff firings, coupled with little training for transferred staff.

The Social Security Administration began the second Trump administration with a hostile takeover. It ends the year in turmoil ...

Initial data tells us that 2026's COLA may hold up reasonably well to inflation. In November, inflation rose 2.7% annually, ...

Social Security retirees are at risk of an impending benefits shortfall that could have serious financial consequences.

Right now, Social Security is failing seniors in important ways — and the situation is only likely to get worse. ...

The problem that retirees must deal with in 2026 relates to the rules that determine when the federal government charges taxes on Social Security benefits. Specifically, a growing number of older ...

During the latter part of 2025, the Fed made three consecutive cuts to its benchmark interest rate. Those cuts came on the ...

The 'Social Security squeeze' is coming for your benefits. Can the program's most existential problems be solved? There are more older Americans than ever, and not enough younger ones. There are lots ...

In his 1998 State of the Union address, President Clinton waved his pen at the assembled Congress and declared that we must "save Social Security first." Democrats have since generally clung to that ...