A day after it announced the elimination of the Office of Transformation, the SSA said it was closing the Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity and that it would reassign the office's tasks - ...

If you need your Social Security check to be as large as possible, you should avoid taking these misguided actions.

Clawbacks from monthly benefit checks after the discovery of overpayments have just been reduced to 50% from 100%, after ...

The Social Security full retirement age is 66 for most baby boomers born between 1943 and 1954. However, for people born in ...

Discover how the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) impact Social Security benefits for ...

If you're planning to retire in five to 10 years and thinking about where Social Security fits into your strategy, you're ...

Social Security is a crucial income source for millions in the U.S., but your net payment might be less than expected due to ...

A bill that would mandate the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services to screen state wards for Social Security benefit eligibility advanced Thursday to the second round ...

Correction: According to the Social Security website, if you aren’t applying for benefits or changing out direct deposit information, you don’t need to contact Social Security to verify your ...

For more than eight decades, Social Security has been the most important government program for retirees. Even though the average monthly benefit of $1,980.86 (as of February 2025) is relatively ...

Many retirement savers, including pre-retirees, lack a basic understanding of Social Security benefits, according to a recently published paper by T. Rowe Price. Furthermore, fewer than 4 in 10 ...