You may depend on Social Security during your retirement far more than you think.
There's good news, but a popular claiming strategy will end.
One example: Only 9% of consumers say they’re ‘very knowledgeable’ about benefits, but 40% expect those benefits to account for most of their retirement income.
Critics portray the system as providing generous benefits
Enlightened employers care about the well-being of their employees. That means educating them about the value of Social Security.
Few issues unite millennials like the future of Social Security. Overwhelmingly, they’re convinced it doesn’t...
Social Security doesn’t just need to be “preserved” or “strengthened”—it should be expanded.
A new report examines solvency issues for Social Security and Medicare
This compromise repair plan recommends tough but necessary changes to increase revenues and restrain benefits
Most individuals plan to rely on government benefits for a chunk of their retirement income. But the system, as it stands, needs some changes in order to continue to pay out what was promised. Americans weigh in on what they'd like to see the government do to fix that.
How well do you understand our federal insurance program?
It's likely we have hit peak-tax rates in no small part because workers realize they are losing money on the program.
The strengths and weaknesses of five online programs.
Social Security faces a long-term financing problem. The program now spends more than it collects each year, and Social Security’s trustees project that it will be unable to pay full benefits beginning in 2034. Reducing the payment period by raising the age at which beneficiaries can begin collecting benefits would improve Social Security’s finances. But some older people, especially those with limited education and incomes, could…
Is it time to change the program's cost-of-living adjustment formula?
About once every two years or so, I write a column about Social Security’s infamous “notch baby” issue. And each time, I think it will be my last such column