When the same long-term care insurance policy is purchased at age 60, the average annual premium for a single male is $1,200 ...

The Social Security retirement and Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) trust funds are approaching insolvency, with both trust ...

Rachel Reeves could lift the two-child benefit limit in her Budget and replace it with a tapered system to please agitated backbenchers in the Labour Party. The Chancellor is thought to be considering ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The government has announced a crackdown on benefit fraud and new legislation may allow investigators to view the bank details of millions of benefit claimants. Up to 24m people were claiming a ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

The next Canada Disability Benefit (CDB) payments are set to come out on Thursday, Sept. 18. The new monthly benefit payment, administered by Service Canada, is aimed at providing direct financial ...

As summer fades, the housing market is shifting too—and this time, the momentum may be tilting toward buyers. For the first time in years, conditions are aligning to give first-time homebuyers a ...

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 ...

According to the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) own estimates, benefit fraudsters swindle millions of pounds from hard-working taxpayers annually. In an effort to combat this issue, a new ...

The Los Angeles County LA Metro LIFE initiative transformed the situation with the launch of payment techniques for the impoverished citizens by offering massive discounts on the price of utilizing ...

The most anticipated announcement of the year for Social Security's more than 70 million recipients will occur on Oct. 15. Independent estimates suggest this will be the fifth consecutive year with an ...