The U.S. Social Security system, a cornerstone of financial support for retirees, disabled individuals, and survivors of ...

The United States Social Security program, a crucial financial support for millions, faces a looming financial challenge.

Trust Fund 101. The Department of the Treasury manages the Social Security trust fund for the benefit of its recipients. Money is received into the fund through payroll taxes, taxes on pension and ...

The OASI trust fund receives 10.6% of employee earnings covered by Social Security payroll taxes, and the DI trust fund the other 1.8%. Otherwise, the two funds work similarly.

Since its inception during the Great Depression, Social Security has been financed primarily by a dedicated tax on labor earnings. Today, workers and their employers together pay a 12.4 percent ...

Jack Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group, used to suggest that investors think of Social Security as if it was a bond they had bought and paid for. The idea, Your Funds: What Social Security is ...

Those who value Social Security and Medicare for themselves, their children and others throughout the country, may feel good when President Trump says he will protect those programs. Even more ...

Trump proposed doing away with taxes on Social Security benefits. Not only are taxes on Social Security income complicated, ...

Since its 1935 founding, the Social Security Administration has been responsible for paying retirement benefits out to all retired Americans above a certain age threshold. While the age threshold ...

To understand the Social Security trust fund, let's review how Social Security works. As you might have noticed on your paycheck, workers get 6.2% of their wages withheld as a Social Security tax.