Social Security benefits are at risk for a "crisis" of cuts in the next decade. Here's what lawmakers say now about ...
As with state and local pensions, so it is likely to be with Medicare and Social Security when their even bigger obligations ...
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 ...
In a few weeks, some 65 million Social Security recipients will find out how big of a raise they’re getting in 2024.
Social Security's trust funds are projected to be depleted by 2033, at which point retirees would see a significant cut to ...
While Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid recipients shouldn't panic, the economy could take a hit, policy analysts say.
Until Congress stops sending monthly checks to wealthy seniors, everything else will be on the chopping block.
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 forecast for next year’s Social Security increase rose to 3.2% from 3% on Wednesday after the government said inflation ...
Don’t worry, senior citizens. You’ll still get your Social Security checks if the federal government shuts down next week.
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 ...
If half a billion dollars of taxpayers’ money gets dropped down a well and nobody hears a sound, did taxpayers really lose out? That’s a topical question following this week’s huge bailout ...