Last month, the Social Security Administration announced the cost-of-living adjustment for 2025. Beginning in January, ...

USA TODAY reached out to retirees across the country who are living mostly on Social Security, to ask how they were doing.

Social Security's annual cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) are calculated based on how inflation changes in the third ...

Sometimes, they also move to lower-cost-of-living areas to stretch their dollars further or aim for a higher-than-average payment. It’s possible to beat the average Social Security benefit.

The smallest rise since 2021 will take effect in January 2025, when Social Security beneficiaries receive a 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA). According ...

Social Security now pays out more money than it brings in, so payments rely largely on a trust fund built up by the Social Security Administration. That fund is projected to run out of money by the ...

Here is all you need to know about this month’s Social Security payments, which go out in three rounds. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law in 1935.

December’s Supplemental Security Income payment, worth up to $943, will go out to millions of people in six days. The next set of SSI payments will be distributed on Nov. 29 because Dec.

If you're receiving Social Security benefits, you may be able to pause them temporarily so you can get a bigger check later on. Here's how. Blake Stimac Writer Blake has over a decade of ...

Before calling it quits and initiating your Social Security retirement payments in 2025, however, there's one thing you'll want to do -- weigh the financial cost of claiming benefits now instead ...

This leads to lower Social Security benefit payments, negatively impacting many retirees' financial well-being. Profit and prosper with the best of expert advice on investing, taxes, retirement ...