2.8 Million Americans Could Receive Expanded Social Security Benefits in 2025. Here's How
Social Security's 2025 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) bumped the average benefit from $1,927 per month to $1,976 per month.
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Social Security January 2025: Your Next Check Includes the COLA Increase
We're a couple of days away from the new year, and that means the next Social Security checks will include the 2025 COLA ...
8 Words From President-Elect Donald Trump That Can Change Social Security Forever
One simple statement implies Trump's desire to alter a foundational aspect of Social Security -- but doing so would have ...
Major changes coming to Social Security regardless of Trump’s presence
Here’s a rundown of four shifts to Social Security benefits you can prepare for ahead of the holidays, largely due to ...
Surviving on $1,800 a month in Social Security, she died looking for a place to live
The life and death of Joanne Erickson highlight the struggles of many seniors with little to no savings amid an unforgiving ...
This Extremely Common Social Security Mistake Could Cost You $4,560 Per Year
If you're going to be relying on Social Security to any extent in retirement, it pays to understand as much as possible about ...
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Here's How to Tell If You Qualify for Social Security Spousal Benefits
Social Security spousal benefits are designed to provide retirement income to stay-at-home parents and others who were ...
Attention DOGE: Here’s how the federal government spends Americans’ tax dollars
As the co-heads of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy ...
SSDI Payments January 2025: What days will disability benefits be paid next month?
The year has not yet begun and people who depend on the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) resource are already ...
Trump doesn’t need ‘warrior board’ to reshape ‘woke’ Pentagon in his image
There has been speculation that Trump could create a board to review senior military leaders, but he doesn't have to in order ...
Stuck behind a VPN wall? Let’s find a way around it
A virtual private network (VPN) allows computer and smartphone users to mask an IP and create a secure, encrypted connection ...
A look at the Social Security Fairness Act’s passage out of Congress
Social Security began as a safeguard “against the hazards and vicissitudes of life,” said former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who on August 14, 1935, signed the ‘Social Security Act’ into law ...