Ida Mae Fuller got the first Social Security check in 1940. Now, 85 years later, the last beneficiaries to receive paper ...

The Social Security shortfall date just moved a little nearer. New federal projection released June 18 show the combined ...

This includes Social Security payments, a small number of which are still issued via paper checks. Critics of the policy have ...

Social Security is dipping into its trust fund to pay current retirees, with spending outpacing its revenue from payroll ...

Some lawmakers have suggested raising the Social Security tax rate. Currently, that tax rate is 12.4% on wages up to a ...

Social Security will be unable to pay full retirement benefits by 2034, one year earlier than previously projected, according ...

Some supporters of Social Security privatization suggest allowing workers to invest a portion of their current contributions ...

I’m getting ready to retire so I’m also wondering if I were to take my ex-husband’s Social Security amount, not mine, at age ...

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 ...

A study calculated the amount of money a "comfortable" retirement would require without Social Security factored in and the ...

The third round of June’s Social Security payments, worth up to $5,108 for the highest-income earners who retire at age 70, ...

The nation’s key program for retiree benefits continues to see financing shortfalls. Unless Congress acts, those drops could ...