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Retirees born between the 1st and 10th of a month will receive the first round of payments on Aug. 13. The second round of ...

Disability benefits are for those who have been deemed to be unable to work, although there are all kinds of work incentives ...

You can start collecting benefits as early as age 62, and you can make your benefits bigger by delaying collecting them -- up ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is trying to walk back comments that Trump savings accounts for newborns could be a ...

A survey of 3,599 Americans conducted by the nonpartisan organization AARP found that confidence in the future of the Social ...

When you receive your check depends on how long you have been collecting Social Security and your date of birth. Note that ...

The Treasury secretary has a really strange way of convincing people it’s “ridiculous” to think the program is under threat.

Bessent was more right the first time, only I would suggest tackling Social Security head on. If done right, private ...

The SSA confirmed that beneficiaries and my Social Security account holders will not be required to visit a field office.

Not even a potentially history-making moment will be enough to prevent retirees from getting the short end of the stick, yet ...

Retired workers will collect an average Social Security check of $2,005, enough to live well in these three expat havens.