What You Need To Know The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security's trust funds have moved up as rising health care costs and new legislation affecting Social Security benefits have ...

With Social Security trust funds estimated to run out in less than a decade, some Americans wonder if Congress will step in ...

If you happened to have been overpaid by the Social Security Administration (SSA), your check may soon be a bit smaller.

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Some 69.4 million people — about 1 in 5 U.S. residents — received a payment from the program in April 2025. Most of them are retired older adults, many reliant on their earned benefits to put food on ...

Social Security payments for July will follow their regular distribution schedule this month, though some recipients could ...

The Social Security Administration is providing less information about caller wait times. Critics complain it's misleading ...

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

The Social Security Administration announced in April that it would withhold up to half of benefit payments from those who ...

There are many people who collect Social Security for decades in retirement. Instead, lawmakers decided back in 1975 to make cost-of-living adjustments, or COLAs, automatic for Social Security.

The Social Security Administration faces a funding crisis. Trustees say the projected shortfall in retirement benefits has risen to $25.1 trillion through 2099, up from $22.6 trillion a year ago.

Last year, the Social Security Trustees projected that the program’s combined trust funds could be out of money by 2035. In their most recent report, they moved that timeline up a year.