The Social Security Disability application process can be confusing, stressful, overwhelming and lengthy. It is often hard for disabi...
There's good news, but a popular claiming strategy will end.
One example: Only 9% of consumers say they’re ‘very knowledgeable’ about benefits, but 40% expect those benefits to account for most of their retirement income.
Critics portray the system as providing generous benefits
Enlightened employers care about the well-being of their employees. That means educating them about the value of Social Security.
Few issues unite millennials like the future of Social Security. Overwhelmingly, they’re convinced it doesn’t...
Social Security doesn’t just need to be “preserved” or “strengthened”—it should be expanded.
A new report examines solvency issues for Social Security and Medicare
This compromise repair plan recommends tough but necessary changes to increase revenues and restrain benefits
Most individuals plan to rely on government benefits for a chunk of their retirement income. But the system, as it stands, needs some changes in order to continue to pay out what was promised. Americans weigh in on what they'd like to see the government do to fix that.
How well do you understand our federal insurance program?
It's likely we have hit peak-tax rates in no small part because workers realize they are losing money on the program.
A new study suggests there may be a connection between social networks and physical well-being.
Movie star Greta Garbo was famous for saying, “I want to be let alone,” but new research suggests that’s a rotten philosophy to follow if you want to live longer. A British study of 6,500 older adults finds that social isolation, even more than loneliness, may increase an older person’s risk of early death. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers at University College London knew from previous studies that both isolation …
Study suggests life can be long and healthy, although good genes help a lot
Internet tools and websites let caregivers vent, ask for assistance and get useful information.
Is it time to change the program's cost-of-living adjustment formula?