When the Social Security Administration announced that benefits would be getting a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, ...

Find out how much your Social Security check could increase in 2026, with estimated raises broken down by specific ages.

The COLA is called a raise because it results in a retiree’s monthly benefits check getting bigger. The purpose of it is to ...

There are three boxes you need to check before you apply. And you'll have to put in some real work to pull this off.

Social Security payments for February follow a normal schedule. These checks are the second to reflect a 2.8% cost-of-living ...

Over 70 million people rely on Social Security for essential income, including retirement, disability, and survivor benefits.

If you’re collecting Social Security, you probably noticed that your January check was larger than your checks in 2025.

The maximum Social Security check has never looked better than it does in 2026. The richest beneficiaries are now taking home ...

If you've reached the age where you're eligible to claim Social Security, it might be tempting to start collecting ...

It's going to be difficult to avoid benefit cuts for at least some people.

Here's when Social Security and SSI checks arrive for February, how much benefits have risen and what new tax and repayment ...

Among these is the fact that, according to the 2025 Trustees Report, the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) trust fund will become insolvent by 2033. The combined OASI and Disability ... The Worst ...