Next year's COLA is likely going to come in above the most recent pay bump for retirees. With most of the data available for calculating the COLA, we have a good idea of what to expect. Seniors can ...
Retirement, survivor and disability payments will continue, but some services may be temporarily unavailable. By Tara Siegel Bernard The failure to reach a budget agreement will shut down much of the ...
Social Security is facing a $25.1 trillion long-term funding shortfall, as well as the prospect of sweeping benefit cuts in as little as seven years. Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano is ...
Two major pillars of the federal government — the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service — will soon stop issuing paper checks to the country’s 75 million Social Security ...
Starting next week on Tuesday, September 30, the Social Security Administration (SSA) will no longer issue paper checks for benefit payments, and instead move exclusively to electronic payments: ...
August DeClemente wanted to make a simple adjustment to his Social Security account. In the old days, all the Allentown man had to do was go to the office on North Fourth Street, get in line and make ...
Social Security payments for October will be sent out on the second, third, and fourth Wednesdays of the month. A new paperless policy requires recipients to use direct deposit or a Direct Express ...
Of the over 71 million Americans who receive regular Social Security payments, some may have begun receiving smaller checks. However, the payments should arrive on schedule nonetheless. October's SSI ...
A report from Senate Democrats says DOGE moved sensitive information to a cloud server despite the risk of “catastrophic” impacts. A report from Senate Democrats says DOGE moved sensitive information ...
U.S. identity theft data shows that some types of fraud have tripled in the past five years. American consumers face mounting ...
The 2026 Social Security COLA announcement is back on track. Some furloughed government workers are being called back to produce a critical piece of September inflation data needed for the calculation ...
The five men arrested Thursday in Bluffton during an operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement were allegedly using others’ Social Security numbers for work and lacked legal residency in the ...