How the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset cause substantial, and often, unfair reductions in ...

Even if your spouse is married, you can still tap into your ex’s Social Security benefits – and it won’t take anything away from the ex’s married partner's benefits. If your ex-spouse is deceased, you ...

It will become slightly harder to qualify for Social Security benefits in retirement next year amid a change related to the ...

In this installment, we’re talking about Social Security benefit options for surviving spouses — in other words, widows and ...

Social Security was put in place nearly 90 years ago to provide a safety net of sorts. There is voluminous research about its effects on those most directly intended to be caught by that net — among ...

A growing number of seniors have to give the IRS a cut of their retirement benefits each year. Find out why that's the case.

Social Security rules aim to make it so benefits reward all workers equally. There's growing support in Congress to revisit ...

The Social Security Administration recently announced several key changes to the program for 2025. Here's what you need to ...

Despite Social Security's wide reach, a small but vulnerable group of elderly Americans never receives its benefits.

The average 1984 retired worker's benefit of $444.85 is equivalent to about $1,332. Meanwhile, the average retired worker's ...

Congress changed a law in 1977 allowing a widow who remarries to continue collecting benefits from her first husband’s Social ...

I spent the majority of my adult life, nearly 37 years, taking and processing all manner of Social Security and Supplemental ...