Explore the Social Security benefit amounts you can receive at various retirement ages and whether the monthly amount or the lifetime amount matters more to you.

Wondering whether you'll need to pay taxes on your Social Security benefits is a very common concern for many seniors and ...

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Retirees might not actually receive as much extra money from next year's Social Security COLA as they anticipate.

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Debbie Carlson posed four important questions regarding retirement. Her argument was that your answers to these questions can help you decide if ...

When should you claim Social Security? There are a lot of different answers to this question, depending on who you ask. There ...

I got a letter recently from the Social Security Administration. It told me that my monthly Social Security benefit was going ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has outlined a series of upgrades to its services in a letter to Congress, reporting ...

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

Three high-profile Senate Democrats — Senate Finance Committee ranking member Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, and Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts — are ...

(CNN) — As Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano tells it, callers only had to wait an average of 8 minutes to speak to an agent on the phone in July. (CNN) — As Social Security Commissioner ...

As Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano tells it, callers only had to wait an average of 8 minutes to speak to an agent on the phone in July. “We had a bold goal of single-digit wait time on ...