Social Security recipients will be happy to hear that most states do not tax benefits. Below are the 41 states (along with Washington, D.C.) that currently do not: Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas are the newcomers to the list, having eliminated their tax in 2024.

Your benefit statement should have been mailed in January. Here's what it's for and how to request another one if you lost it.

But once combined income exceeds $25,000 for single tax-filers or $32,000 for married couples filing taxes jointly, taxes on Social Security can apply. And the reason more retirees will likely owe those taxes in 2025 is that through the years, Social Security benefits have gotten an automatic cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA.