When it comes to Social Security changes, most Americans are focused on high-profile shifts that affect their finances, such as new tax deductions under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that effectively ...

Optimizing your lifetime Social Security benefits requires you to think about an unpleasant topic.

I’ve been saving up questions I’ve gotten from readers about benefits for spouses. It’s an issue I’ve covered a hundred times in this column. But the questions still keep ...

Along with private pensions and savings/investments, Social Security benefits are one leg of the three-legged stool of retirement planning. However, according to a 2020 study conducted by the National ...

Americans have rarely been more wrong about Social Security. As Nationwide Financial found in a recent survey, 40% of Americans say they're either confident or very confident in their knowledge of ...

Spousal benefits are a core feature of Social Security, designed to provide financial security to married individuals and divorced spouses who may have limited or no work history of their own.

The median worker aged 45 to 62 could increase their lifetime spending power by $182,000 by delaying Social Security retirement benefits until age 70.

Here is a bit of advice from a guy who gives Social Security advice for a living. Don't take any advice from your friends or neighbors about Social Security. It's always wrong! OK, it's not always ...

The SSA is next week scheduled to send out February 2026’s benefits to a particular group of Social Security recipients in ...

Buffett answered the question of whether Social Security is a Ponzi scheme.