The Social Security Fairness Act increased benefits to millions more retirees, including some who never claimed them.

Qualifying for Social Security benefits in retirement generally goes something like this: Work and pay taxes on your income.

You may be inclined to delay your Social Security claim if you like the sound of that. But you should know that there's a ...

A child’s benefits can only begin once their parent has begun receiving retirement benefits. If a parent claims Social ...

With the newest CBO estimate predicting the national debt will hit $52 trillion by 2035, Congress has two feasible options to ...

If you and your spouse have a nice amount of money saved up, then you may decide that you'll each claim Social Security as ...

For most of us, that age is between 66 and 67. If you start collecting your benefits earlier (as early as 62), your checks ...

Over three million retirees who worked in the public sector, or are entitled to spousal or surviving spousal benefits, will ...

One thing about Social Security is that it’s not an “entitlement” program, even though some people like to call it that. It operates more like a government-run pension program. You aren’t ...

The bad news is that you'll lose spousal benefits once you're no longer married, but you could be entitled to a different ...

If a financially well-off individual had multiple ex-spouses, could it happen that the multiple ex-spouses could each be collecting Social Security based on their own financial situation as ...

Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author. The Trump Administration realizes that the quickly growing national debt must be reduced. The current public […] ...