STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Amid anti-fraud efforts, the U.S. Social Security Administration announced a new policy intended to ...

All financial plans are important, but Social Security benefits play a profound role in preventing elderly poverty and are paid out at an important stage in a person’s life. With that in mind ...

A popular pastime among Americans of a certain age is to wage an internal debate about when to claim Social Security: At age 62? Sixty-five? Seventy? In purely monetary terms, as it turns out ...

As an American taxpayer, you’ve likely heard about Social Security your entire working life, and perhaps even bemoaned the amount of taxes that are subtracted from your paycheck. However ...

Svetikd / Getty Images The Social Security program was established in 1935 to provide retirement income for certain U.S. workers. It was later expanded to cover most of the country’s workforce ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

For 60 Minutes, correspondent Anderson Cooper reported on what happens when Social Security overpays people who receive benefits. Beneficiaries may find out years later that they owe tens of ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called the benefits system is "at risk." Senate Democratic leaders stood in support of Social Security benefits on Monday in the wake of the Social Security ...

Musk’s statement that Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme,” and his plans to cut up to 12 percent of the Social Security Administration’s workforce, are giving GOP lawmakers heartburn.