The average benefit has reached a historic high, but it may not go as far as you'd hoped.

You may not be familiar with all of these, even if you've been on benefits for a while.

Your age at sign up will dictate the size of your Social Security benefit. Spouses can coordinate their claiming strategies to maximize their household benefits. Having the necessary documents at hand ...

Here's when Social Security and SSI checks arrive for February, how much benefits have risen and what new tax and repayment ...

Social Security payments for February follow a normal schedule. What to know if the federal government shuts down.

Even careful retirees miss a Social Security rule that locks in choices. Learn how claiming age affects switching, suspending ...

By Russell Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Association of Mature ...

For millions of Americans, the start of 2026 brought something many had been hoping for: a noticeable increase in their ...

Social Security benefits become taxable when combined income exceeds thresholds frozen since 1983. Claiming at 62 cuts benefits by 30% permanently while waiting until 70 adds 24% above full retirement ...

Almost every year since the Social Security Act was passed in 1935, there have been amendments to that original law.