In four days, millions of Social Security recipients will receive their first monthly retirement checks of 2025. Social ...

We're a couple of days into 2025 and the COLA increase has officially gone into effect. Social Security (retirement and ...

If you receive Social Security retirement benefits, more money should be coming your way this month. In October, the Social ...

So, anyone that claims Social Security as soon as possible — thereby incurring the largest benefit reduction (30% for those ...

When Morningstar released its first safe withdrawal report in 2021, the highest starting safe withdrawal rate was 3.3%. In 2022, it was 3.8%.

Some people haven't received all their Social Security benefits, even though they paid into the system. A new law changes ...

The second round of January’s Social Security payments, worth up to $5,108 for the highest-income earners who retire at age 70, will go out to the second group of retirees on Wednesday, Jan. 15. Here ...

Social Security benefits are typically based on a person’s 35 highest-earning years of work, but if your spouse earned significantly more or your history is limited you could benefit more from spousal ...

An estimated 72.5 million Social Security recipients will benefit from a 2.5 percent increase in their payments this year thanks to the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA).

You can, however, choose to claim as early as 62. If you do so, however, you'll be penalized. Each month before your FRA ...

If retirement is in the near future for you, you are probably strategizing your savings and retirement accounts to be ready ...

President-elect Donald Trump's plans to protect Social Security benefits could give retirees more money in their pockets, but ...