Other pressing economic issues haven’t made it a priority. But some lawmakers want to raise the amount.

After months of job cuts, leadership turnover and other turmoil at the Social Security Administration, the agency’s newly ...

People who have just retired or are about to do so are vulnerable to sequence-of-returns risk, which means that a bad market ...

In recent years, the issue of dormant accounts and unclaimed benefits within the Social Security and National Insurance Trust ...

If you're divorced, you may still qualify for spousal benefits based on your ex's work record. To qualify, the marriage must have lasted at least 10 years, and your ex-spouse must be eligible for ...

The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security’s trust funds have moved up as rising health care costs and new ...

The Unified Pension Scheme (UPS) now grants central government employees retirement and death gratuity benefits similar to ...

The traditional retirement planning approaches no longer cover all expenses in nest egg years. So what can retirees do? Thankfully, there are alternative investments that provide steady, higher-rate ...

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

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

Lawmakers on Sunday continued to reel from the shooting of two Democratic Minnesota state legislators in their homes that led ...