The trustees for Social Security and Medicare released their annual report on the status of the entitlement programs' trust funds, which are expected to be depleted sooner than previously thought. The ...

Peter Gratton, M.A.P.P., Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, risk management, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex ...

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 shortfall, ...

Because the beneficiaries do not by the very nature of the trust have any entitlement to the trust fund itself, it does not usually form part of their estate on divorce, bankruptcy or death. The trust ...

The health and stability of the Social Security system are on the minds of Americans who are close to and in retirement. More than half of Americans who aren’t yet retired lack confidence that they'll ...

Ah, those Latin words that lawyers love. Or, at least, used to. These days most lawyers do try to communicate in English, but some Latin terms persist because they are shorthand for well understood in ...