Social Security is America’s most expensive program, accounting for more than one in five dollars in the federal budget. A perennial political hot-button topic, Social Security is subject to political ...

For the vast majority of people, the stream of promised retirement checks is worth more than anything else, our columnist says. By Jeff Sommer Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on markets ...

Most Social Security recipients will receive their payments as scheduled in September, but those who rely solely on Supplemental Security Income (SSI) will not see a deposit this month, a result of ...

A Social Security official who has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging the Department of Government Efficiency officials mishandled Americans' sensitive information says he's resigning his post ...

Social Security payments for the month of September follow a normal schedule. But recipients who were previously overpaid by the Social Security Administration may need to take action to avoid smaller ...

Social Security payments for September are starting to hit recipients' bank accounts, with the Labor Day holiday causing Supplemental Security Income checks to be sent out sooner than usual. Social ...

This spring, something unexpected happened: the number of people applying for Social Security benefits surged. Between January and May, the number of Americans who applied for Social Security jumped ...