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The average payout could drop to $1,580 per month after 2034 -- a 19% drop from the current average retirement payout.
The Social Security shortfall date just moved a little nearer. New federal projection released June 18 show the combined ...
Ida Mae Fuller got the first Social Security check in 1940. Now, 85 years later, the last beneficiaries to receive paper ...
Social Security is dipping into its trust fund to pay current retirees, with spending outpacing its revenue from payroll ...
If you have at least 35 years of earnings at or above the threshold, you may be in line for the maximum possible benefit in ...
This includes Social Security payments, a small number of which are still issued via paper checks. Critics of the policy have ...
Some lawmakers have suggested raising the Social Security tax rate. Currently, that tax rate is 12.4% on wages up to a ...
Both programs are expected to need to cut monthly benefits in less than a decade as their trust funds run dry.
Some supporters of Social Security privatization suggest allowing workers to invest a portion of their current contributions ...
The Social Security trustees say the program is still solvent, but Trump immigration and tax policies could deliver serious ...
The nation’s key program for retiree benefits continues to see financing shortfalls. Unless Congress acts, those drops could ...
Social Security will not be able to fully pay monthly benefits to tens of millions of retirees and people with disabilities ...