Two new reports spend a good deal of time examining the solvency of the Social Security program. While Social Security's ...

The Social Security trust fund is not a real asset but a paper entry of IOUs that the government must borrow to cover, ...

The go-broke date — or the date at which the programs will no longer have enough funds to pay full benefits — was pushed up ...

Most Americans don’t have a retirement tax plan, according to a Northwestern Mutual study. If you’re one of them, it could be ...

Social Security might feel like something to worry about later, but for Gen X, later is coming up fast. The decisions you ...

My husband began drawing his Social Security at age 62. He is 68 now (born in 1955), while I am 62 (born 1961). If I begin to draw my Social Security now it will be reduced, of course. Can I collect ...

Each year, about two million people are told they owe the Social Security Administration money because the agency ...

Researchers aimed to see which, if any, claiming ages optimized Social Security benefits. In this ... retiree is going to benefit from waiting to collect their Social Security payout until age 70.

Workers who qualify for Social Security retirement benefits can choose to apply at any point between the ages of 62 and 70. For those born in 1960 or later, full retirement age for Social Security ...

Anyone close to retirement must consider when to begin taking Social Security benefits.While you can claim them as early as age 62, your benefit goes up each year until you hit the full retirement ...

Christine Benz of Morningstar If there’s a single group of people who are likely to be experiencing the most consternation ...