Medicare and Social Security go-broke dates pushed up due to rising health care costs, new SSA law BY Associated Press Washington, D.C. UPDATED 5:08 PM ET Jun. 20, 2025 ...

The Senate has hauled President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts to passage after a turbulent ...

The finish line will come after a whirlwind of votes, nicknamed a "vote-a-rama," on what are expected to be dozens of ...

The virtual event is just one way that AARP, which advocates for more than 100 million Americans age 50 and older, is fighting to protect Social Security. AARP has adopted an “all-hands-on-deck ...

Some 69.4 million people — about 1 in 5 U.S. residents — received a payment from the program in April 2025. Most of them are retired older adults, many reliant on their earned benefits to put food on ...

Live updates and the latest news as the Senate votes on amendment to the Trump-backed Republican domestic policy bill.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935. The law set a January 1937 deadline to start collecting payroll taxes from the first 26 million workers covered by ...

R epublican Senator Susan Collins received a warning about the unpopularity of President Donald Trump 's "Big Beautiful Bill" in Maine as she considers whether to support the legislation—and as she ...

Social Security would give you $1,000 of your own retirement benefit and $500 of your spousal benefit, for a total of $1,500 per month. The letter the couple received only said her spousal benefit ...

Out of the ordinary A steadily increasing Social Security COLA prediction isn't unusual. When inflation rises, it tends to continue to rise. There's sometimes a momentum effect at work. What is ...

Image source: Getty Images. Social Security retired-worker benefits hit a milestone for the first time in 90 years Every month, the Social Security Administration (SSA) publishes what's known as ...