A: You and your friends are all wrong. Social Security retirement benefits are based on the highest 35 years of earnings.

The Social Security Administration has stopped publishing key customer-service metrics, which will make it more difficult to track whether performance is improving or eroding over time.

Trustees of the Social Security trust fund predict the fund will be exhausted in eight years. Unless Congress acts, Social ...

The Social Security Administration faces a funding crisis that will see the agency run out of money for full payments by the mid-2030s.

The Social Security Administration cites 2035 as the final year that the funds combined will be able to pay 100% of scheduled benefits. It’s anticipated that benefits paid out will drop by 17% ...