President Trump vowed to end taxes on Social Security, but the One Big Beautiful Bill stops short of fulfilling that promise.

The Social Security Fairness Act (SSFA), enacted on January 5, 2025, marks a significant shift in Social Security benefits, ...

In the hours after Congress passed President Trump's megabill, an email from the Social Security Administration hit the inboxes of many Americans. It applauded the legislation's passage and said it ...

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 ...

The Social Security Administration, which overpays billions in benefits annually, will start withholding some benefits sent to overpaid recipients.

That gave the Social Security Board — the precursor to today’s Social Security Administration (SSA) — less than a year and a half to hire thousands of employees, create a national network of offices ...

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 ...

The agency's newly minted commissioner faced pointed questions from lawmakers about the future of the agency and its ability to pay Americans their benefits and protect their privacy.

New Jersey Transit, the third-largest transit system in the nation, provides more than 700,000 passenger trips a day on average across its lines.

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 ...

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.

FILE - A Social Security card is displayed on Oct. 12, 2021, in Tigard, Ore. The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security’s trust funds have moved up as rising health care costs and new ...