Social Security benefits are at risk for a "crisis" of cuts in the next decade. Here's what lawmakers say now about ...

Teachers, firefighters, cops and other public employees are retiring. They need the money they were promised. If half a billion dollars of taxpayers' money gets dropped down a well and nobody ...

Social Security and Medicare are known as third rails of American politics for a reason. Reducing benefits is very unpopular, but higher taxes are divisive, too — and without at least one of those two ...

High inflation this year meant the biggest annual cost-of-living adjustment in decades for Social Security checks — an 8.7% ...

Don’t worry, senior citizens. You’ll still get your Social Security checks if the federal government shuts down next week.

Social Security’s 2024 cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, is now estimated at 3.2%. That’s an increase from last month’s ...

The next cost-of-living increase for Social Security recipients is projected to be slightly higher than estimated in previous ...

Goss argues that rising income inequality — with fast growth at the top and slow growth everywhere else — is the mystery ingredient that has thrown Social Security’s finances into turmoil earlier than ...

It's projected that Medicare Part B premiums will be more expensive in 2024, but Part D should be slightly cheaper. Katie is a writer covering all things how-to at CNET, with a focus on Social ...

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy watched the last GOP presidential debate wishing that one of the hopefuls would bring up Social ...