The Trump administration’s colossal cuts to the Social Security Administration in the name of “efficiency” are sowing chaos ...

The Social Security Fairness Act ends WEP and GPO reductions, boosting benefits for many—but not all eligible recipients are automatically included.

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Concerns about the future of Social Security, poor customer service at the Social Security Administration (SSA) and how AARP can help protect the program that Americans pay into to fund their ...

A nine-decade legacy Social Security was born on Aug. 14, 1935, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, establishing a national social insurance program with guaranteed ...

When 74-year-old David Carr of Cleveland opened the letter from the Social Security Administration (SSA), he was unprepared for what it said. The SSA told him that his late wife, Deb Carr — who ...

Tump repeatedly vowed in his 2025 State of the Union address: “I’m calling for no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security benefits for our great seniors.” ...

In 2021, acknowledging the recurring problem, the Social Security Administration sent an “emergency message” to staff as the Claims Conference prepared to issue a new round of restitution payments to ...

Still, there are hundreds of friend’s cousins out there propagating myths about Social Security on social media. Here are three persistent myths that could wind up hurting your retirement.

In August 1935, the Social Security Act was signed into law, with the first retired-worker benefit being issued in January 1940. For decades, this prized social program has been providing a ...

Since Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) took effective control of the Social Security Administration, the agency that services the needs of the Americans who have paid into it ...

Ida Mae Fuller got the first Social Security check in 1940. Now, 85 years later, the last beneficiaries to receive paper Social Security checks will get theirs in the mail in September.