Congress enacted a new law in 1983 to ensure Social Security can continue paying full benefits. One aspect of the changes was spaced out over multiple decades, culminating next year. Congress faces a ...

The COLA boost is slightly better than earlier estimates, even if we're not talking about a lot of money. But many retirees ...

Everything from Social Security benefit checks to how much payroll tax select workers will owe is being adjusted next year.

Social Security might seem like a pretty straightforward, unchanging benefits program, but the reality is that it undergoes changes every year, if not even more often. Perhaps the most visible of ...

Social Security checks have officially been renamed "Federal Benefit Payments." One popular variant claimed the government was taking money from people's earned income and saying it would be used as a ...

Social Security recipients will see several changes in 2026, including a cost-of-living adjustment and the elimination of paper checks. The full retirement age will increase in 2026, affecting those ...

If not for the government shutdown, Social Security beneficiaries would have discovered the extent of the COLA hike for 2026 when new inflation data was released Oct. 15. In 2025, Social Security and ...

A huge change is in store for Social Security checks, and it has some people up in arms. That’s because the Treasury Department will stop issuing paper checks for tax refunds, Social Security payments ...

Social Security's biggest reveal of the year -- the 2026 COLA -- was supposed to occur today (Oct. 15), but has been pushed back by the federal government shutdown. The September inflation report will ...