Millions of public workers received a notice this year and saw something unexpected. The Social Security Administration (SSA) ...

Social Security is not the same program it was even a few years ago. A handful of big policy shifts, administrative ...

Consider the following situation: Two people are retiring. One worked entirely in a government job not covered by Social Security because it had a pension system of its own. The other worked entirely ...

Kate Dias was still in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday morning, ostensibly because of a significant snowstorm that hit the nation’s capitol early this week, but she spent some time savoring a piece of ...

A major update on News Center 7′s I-Team’s reporting on the millions of Americans who rely on benefits from the Social Security Administration to make ends meet. The U.S. House of Representatives ...

Sometimes an academic study offers much less information than it claims. And sometimes what appears to be an academic study is not a study at all. Professor Austan Goolsbee of the University of ...

A pair of federal government provisions designed to reduce excessive Social Security payouts are once again being targeted for elimination by U.S. lawmakers. At issue are the Windfall Elimination ...

Let us explore the history and facts about Social Security before Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy dismantle whatever pieces are still there. Congress just passed the Social Security Fairness Act that ...

More women than men expect Social Security to fund retirement. Here’s why -- and how to prepare for possible benefit cuts by adjusting your retirement planning.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tom Hager – “Mister Social Security” – offers expert advice from Ohio. Updated, Feb. 27, 2025: This post has been adjusted to ...

The Windfall Elimination Provision is designed to prevent people who didn't pay Social Security tax on the majority of their income from receiving disproportionately high Social Security payments. In ...