The last thing you want to do is jeopardize your monthly payments. Discover 11 types of income retirees can collect without ...

Everyone receives the Social Security COLA, but these changes could significantly boost or detract from your benefits.

Social Security’s Disability Insurance (SSDI) program has existed for nearly 60 years. Over that time, it has morphed from a relatively small-scale, anti-poverty program into a massive system that ...

How much Social Security income spouses receive depends on their claim age and the primary insurance amount (PIA) of their ...

Rebecca D. Vallas, Director of Policy, Poverty to Prosperity Program, testified before the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee. Rebecca D. Vallas, Director of Policy, Poverty to Prosperity Program, ...

For nearly 100 years, the United States has maintained one of the world’s more successful models of social insurance, protecting Americans from the death of a spouse or parent, disability and old age ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Elizabeth Bauer is an actuary who writes about retirement policy. After all, social insurance might sound like it is simply ...

Republicans and Democrats have very different ideas about social insurance programs such as unemployment compensation, Social Security, Medicare and food stamps. Democrats would like to see the scope ...

Social Security is running low, just not as quickly as initially expected. That was the big news for seniors this week after the Social Security Board of Trustees released its annual report, ...

Last year, program trustees projected that, beginning in 2033, Social Security’s trust fund will be depleted and insufficient to pay retirement benefits. Medicare faces an even more immediate crisis, ...

A woman who fought for seven years to receive Social Security Administration (SSA) disability benefits has been left unable to access other insurance programs after the compensation she received made ...