A chart created by the Congressional Budget Office highlights big underlying problems for Social Security. There are steps that current and future retirees can take now to prevent the bleak future ...

The SSA is increasing the earnings required to get work credits in 2026. Learn what this change means for your future ...

The Social Security Administration could change the job and age criteria that helps determine disability eligibility — meaning that 750,000 disabled Americans could be unable to get such benefits. The ...

The Social Security Administration has added 13 new diseases and conditions to its list of disabilities, which earn those suffering serious medical issues a faster benefits application process. Those ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has announced that it will simplify the process of applying for disability benefits. As part of a new rule that has been finalized this year, applicants for ...

After years of volatile cost-of-living adjustments, millions of veterans and military retirees are set to receive a 2.8% increase in their monthly benefits starting December 1, 202 ...

Navigating SSDI benefits requires careful scrutiny of concurrent payments. Understand which government and private incomes ...

Most SSDI recipients already struggle to afford basic living costs—could proposed benefit cuts push them even deeper into financial hardship?

Of the over 71 million Americans who receive regular Social Security payments, some may have begun receiving smaller checks. However, the payments should arrive on schedule nonetheless. October's SSI ...

You might be skeptical. You've no doubt read headlines before blaring that something is the biggest, best, most important, or another extreme description. And then you find out that it was overhyped.

Timing your Social Security benefits is one of the most important financial decisions you can make. Delaying your claim increases your monthly benefit, but you forego potentially years of Social ...