On June 18, the Social Security Trustees released their annual report projecting the financial status of the federal ...

The U.S. Social Security program faces a critical juncture, with its trust fund projected to deplete by 2035. Among the proposed reforms, increasing the retirement age is a contentious option ...

Aliss Higham is a Newsweek reporter based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her focus is reporting on Social Security, other government benefits and personal finance. She has previously extensively covered U ...

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The president did make several key changes to the program this year, but his main agenda item -- ending benefit taxes -- has yet to come to fruition. And there's an even bigger Social Security issue ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The real truth about retirement, available only here. I’d meant to write about J.D. Vance’s views on Social Security ...

Historically, social conservatives have opposed racial integration, civil rights reform, women’s right to vote and the legalization of being gay, among other social reforms.

Writing at Marketwatch, Brett Arrends discusses a Biggs-approved Social Security reform: convert Social Security to a flat benefit, either at 125% or 150% of the federal poverty threshold.

Social Security is facing enormous shortfalls. It is insolvent. Within the next 10 years, no one will be able to avoid this reality — despite decades of politically expedient denial.

Social Security is on track to become insolvent in 2035, meaning that without reforms, the fund will be unable to pay out full benefits beyond that point. Without action, reaching 2035 would ...

The U.S. Government Accountability Office expanded on August 6, 2024 its most recent report — the third in a three-part series — to create mock proposals for the Senate to reform Social ...