The benefits provide important economic support for older people who cannot work. The White House recently halted changes to ...

Social Security is a prime factor in Americans' retirement planning, and by employing this handy hack you can optimize it to ...

Roughly 4 in 10 Americans keep working after they start collecting Social Security, and many of them are blindsided when ...

Social Security has been at the center of a whirlwind of developments this year, and financial advisors are watching closely. Since January, the program has generated headline after headline. Call ...

Many people have no clue what their Social Security benefits will actually be when they've clocked out of work for the last time — and that's a problem. While these benefits might replace only 40% of ...

Jonathan Ponciano is a financial journalist with nearly a decade of experience covering markets, technology, and entrepreneurship. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, ...

Nine in 10 working Americans say they plan to ignore one of the most common pieces of financial advice about Social Security: waiting until age 70 to claim benefits, which ensures higher monthly ...

The need to tackle Social Security's funding challenges has never been more pressing. The trust fund is projected to be depleted by 2034, according to this year's Trustees Report, released last week ...