Patience can work in your favor when it comes to the size of your Social Security benefits as well -- the longer you wait to ...

Your birth year determines your full retirement age, and claiming benefits too early means permanently reduced monthly ...

Social Security recipients under age 67 lose $1 in benefits for every $2 earned above $23,400 in 2025. Workers reaching full ...

There's no guesswork to it -- the underlying math is actually quite cut and dried.

Social Security is rapidly approaching insolvency. The retirement trust fund is seven years from exhaustion, and the theoretically combined trust funds are nine years from running out.

I’ve read that the Social Security Administration offers a lump-sum payment to new retirees who need some extra cash. I haven’t yet filed for my retirement benefits ...

Sometimes people will write to me complaining that the government, specifically, the Social Security Administration, has ...