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If I predecease my wife, is she entitled to survivor benefits if she is younger than 62?
Both of those numbers are above recent forecasts from the Senior Citizen's League and independent analyst Mary Johnson. Both ...
The Social Security Administration said the bill ensures most Social Security beneficiaries will no longer pay federal income ...
The SSA has now confirmed it has sent out 3.1 million payments to those impacted by the Social Security Fairness Act.
With Social Security trust funds estimated to run out in less than a decade, some Americans wonder if Congress will step in ...
But what would make the 2026 cost-of-living adjustment special is that it would mark the fifth consecutive year of at least a ...
Social Security beneficiaries will receive a 2.5% raise in 2025, with payments arriving in February based on birth dates. The increase aims to help retirees and others keep up with inflation.
Social Security beneficiaries will see their payments arrive a little later than normal this month due to a quirk in the safety net program’s payment calendar.
There are several other months with later dates for the initial benefit payments, which fell on the 12th of February and will fall on the 13th of August and 12th of November. Social Security ...
Rennie Glasgow, who has served 15 years at the Social Security Administration, is seeing something new on the job: dead people. They're not really dead, of course. In four instances over the past ...
Other changes to Social Security in 2025 include a smaller cost-of-living adjustment (2.5%, down from 3.4%), an increase in the maximum taxable earnings limit from $168,000 to $176,100, and ...
In February, Social Security's 800 number received around 8.6 million calls; by March, it had received nearly 10.5 million calls. All told, the average number of daily calls per month rose by ...