If you check those three boxes, you're eligible to receive up to 50% of your spouse's primary insurance amount (PIA), which ...

Understanding Social Security survivor benefits is crucial for widows, as claiming early can reduce payments; strategic planning ensures financial stability.

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COLA, Medicare premiums and taxable income limits will all shift next year, affecting millions of retirees and disability ...

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Medicare Advantage updates, changes at Social Security, DOGE and more. In case you missed it, here's what Retirement Daily published on Medicare and Social Security this week. If you want to help your ...

The states that received the most Social Security benefits were California, Florida, Texas, New York and Pennsylvania.

Over the past 17 years that I have been doing this column, I have written about 50 columns dealing with the Social Security offsets that impact some state and local government employees who work at ...

with 80,000 widows and children among those affected, the Urban Institute recently found. Social Security is also considering ...

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.

Social Security spousal benefits can be extremely beneficial for people who either don't qualify for Social Security by themselves or qualify for a significantly lower amount than their current or ...

Up to 85% of your Social Security benefits may be taxed, but a new "senior deduction" can cut taxes—unless your income is too ...