Key Points – Russia launched the “Perm,” its newest Yasen-M class nuclear-powered attack submarine, on March 27, 2025, marking it as the first Russian SSN officially equipped with 3M22 ...

The Social Security Administration faces a funding crisis. Trustees say the projected shortfall in retirement benefits has risen to $25.1 trillion through 2099, up from $22.6 trillion a year ago.

Social Security is on track to deplete its trust funds by 2034, one year sooner than previously forecast, when the federal retirement program will be required to cut monthly benefits by about 20%.

Social Security chief on wait times, technology upgrades and agency's future Older Americans are filing for Social Security benefits at a record rate this year, a surge that could reflect growing ...

Trustees of the Social Security trust fund predict the fund will be exhausted in eight years. Unless Congress acts, Social Security payments will automatically drop by 23% at that time.

About 68 million people received monthly Social Security benefits in 2024, and Medicare provides health insurance coverage to 67.6 million people. Both the Social Security and Medicare programs ...

Social Security will not be able to fully pay monthly benefits to tens of millions of retirees and people with disabilities in 2034 if lawmakers don’t act to address the program’s pending ...

FILE – A Social Security card is displayed on Oct. 12, 2021, in Tigard, Ore. The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security’s trust funds have moved up as rising health care costs and new ...

A Friday U.S. Supreme Court decision allows the Department of Government Efficiency to access sensitive social security information, halting a lower court order.

The Social Security shortfall date just moved a little bit nearer. New federal projections, released on June 18, show that the combined Social Security trust funds will pay 100% of benefits until 2034 ...

If you're in one of the first two categories, the general idea is that some or all of your Social Security benefits can be withheld if your income exceeds a certain threshold. Here's what I mean ...