The nation’s key program for retiree benefits continues to see financing shortfalls. Unless Congress acts, those drops could ...

Ida Mae Fuller got the first Social Security check in 1940. Now, 85 years later, the last beneficiaries to receive paper ...

Social Security is dipping into its trust fund to pay current retirees, with spending outpacing its revenue from payroll ...

This includes Social Security payments, a small number of which are still issued via paper checks. Critics of the policy have ...

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The trust funds that the Social Security Administration relies on to pay millions of U.S. retiree benefits could be depleted ...

A new report says rising health care costs have pushed up the go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security. Former ...

A review from Social Security trustees has given the program until 2034 until it runs out of money, which is one year earlier ...

The go-broke date — or the date at which the programs will no longer have enough funds to pay full benefits — was pushed up ...

The Social Security shortfall date just moved a little bit nearer. New federal projections, released on June 18, show that ...

Shaken by the unpredictability of the Trump administration and other factors, some are claiming their benefits earlier than ...

When Social Security was first signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in August 1935, it created a crucial ...