In legislative developments, Representative Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, reintroduced a bill last week aimed at ...

Retired-worker benefits can hit a psychologically important level next year, but seniors are still likely to get the short ...

However, you want to wait until age 65 to claim Social Security, so you need to find a way to generate additional income for five more years ... will disappear. The average Social Security ...

While the actual 2026 Social Security cost-of-living increase for retired workers won’t be announced until October, the ...

The nonpartisan Senior Citizens League expects the COLA to be 2.3% for 2026, based on a forecast that inflation will drop throughout the coming year. Another forecast by independent Social Security ...

For most retirees, Social Security is more than just a monthly check. It represents the foundation of their financial well-being as they age. Beginning in 2002, national pollster Gallup began ...

Social Security recipients saw their monthly check grow by 2.5% in 2025 thanks to a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) designed ...

More than 68 million Americans receive a Social Security benefit. Of those beneficiaries, 53,595,000 are aged 65 or older and 51,773,000 are retired workers. For those who haven’t retired yet, more ...

In 2025, nearly 73 million Social Security and SSI recipients will see their benefits increase by 2.5%. That’s just under the 2.5% by which the average COLA boosted benefits over the last decade.

We'll dive into this below, and we'll also look at how much the average ... you're a few years (or more) behind on your retirement savings. But a handful of little-known "Social Security secrets ...