Claiming Social Security early doesn’t just shrink your checks—it also cuts survivor benefits for your spouse and children.

Think twice before you join the growing number of 62-year-olds who are deciding to be “early claimers” of their Social ...

Social Security employees fear that adding complicated unpaid pension claims to their priority list will push routine needs ...

Trustees of the Social Security trust fund predict the fund will be exhausted in eight years. Unless Congress acts, Social Security payments will automatically drop by 23% at that time.

Janice’s husband died suddenly last year after having a stroke. The couple were a few years away from retirement. Janice, 62, ...

Of the millions of death reports received by Social Security each year ... spouse and dependent children," as benefits are stopped and the process of restoring them can be long and challenging ...

“The reported data are people in our records with a Social Security number who do not have a date of death associated with their record. These individuals are not necessarily receiving benefits.” ...

Each year, members of the National Alliance for Children’s Grief (NACG) gather to discuss strategies to help America’s ...

DOGE announced that it's working with the Social Security Administration to clean up death records in the agency's database to ensure living numberholders get benefits. Democrats argued that Elon ...

so you can’t pay the bills without your grandmother’s Social Security benefits. If your grandmother legally adopted you or you lived with her for an eligible period of time prior to her death ...

Social Security spousal benefits are granted to individuals who ... Finally, if your spouse dies, you can receive a one-time death benefit of $255 if your spouse was living with you at the time ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers benefits to nearly 69 million Americans ... will push them to quit “until the agency ends up in a death spiral with staffing, inducing ...