The new year will bring a Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) of 2.8%, a slight step up from the 2.5% increase ...
Many workers could increase their lifetime spending power by $182,000 by delaying Social Security retirement benefits.
For the vast majority of people, the stream of promised retirement checks is worth more than anything else, our columnist says. By Jeff Sommer Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on markets ...
There are millions of older Americans today who collect a monthly benefit from Social Security. And for many, those benefits are their only source of income. A Pew Research Center report found that in ...
Imagine getting a government budget passed with bipartisan support and no shutdown, featuring tax cuts President Donald Trump ...
Social Security benefits are a lifeline for millions of older adults, and a new study shows that the majority of Americans can't get by without them. According to a 2025 report from the Nationwide ...
Social Security recipients will receive a 2.8% boost in their monthly benefits in 2026, the Social Security Administration announced Friday. However, many seniors say the annual adjustments haven’t ...
According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Social Security lifted 22 million people above the federal poverty line in 2023, with 16.3 million of them aged 65 and above. Meanwhile, nearly ...