The Latest Breaking News from Social Security

The decade before retirement is the home stretch in the race to quit work — but there are crucial financial decisions to make before you reach the finish line.

I asked an expert financial planner if my retirement dreams are realistic — or if my head is in the clouds. Here is how it's been going so far.

Throughout the 2024 presidential election campaign, Donald Trump denied claims he intended to shape his second administration’s policies around Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a renewed conservative America. But despite his repeated denials, Trump 2.0 has adopted much of Project 2025 into the White House’s agenda.

The SSA moved to strip thousands of government workers of civil service protections, leaving career employees vulnerable to termination.

Inflation, taxes and Social Security are the three top concerns for retirees, according to the 2025 Allianz Annual Retirement Study

Remarry carefully, because love gets complicated the second time around.

The right to social security is enshrined in several international agreements on human rights. But the UK’s system – even before the disability benefits cuts announced earlier this year – falls way below these standards.

The UK's social security system has been branded “consciously cruel” by campaigners who say it “does not stand up to the international human…

The SSA moved to strip thousands of government workers of civil service protections, leaving career employees vulnerable to termination.

Saving and spending is a concern but most workers and retirees think they are on track based on a new survey.

‘We have people who did not receive benefits come in every day with their ID and say, “I’m not dead, I’m alive!,”’ an SSA analyst recalls