The official trustees now estimate the need for a 23% cut in benefits, plus 11% to Medicare, in eight years.

This includes Social Security payments, a small number of which are still issued via paper checks. Critics of the policy have ...

The Social Security fund will run dry in 2033, unless Congress combines the program's old-age and disability funds, in which ...

In the past, Social Security collections that weren’t sent out to retirees were predictably spent by politicians who exist to ...

Social Security is on track to deplete its trust funds by 2034, one year sooner than previously forecast, when the federal ...

The Social Security shortfall date just moved a little bit nearer. New federal projections, released on June 18, show that ...

Ida Mae Fuller got the first Social Security check in 1940. Now, 85 years later, the last beneficiaries to receive paper ...

The Medicare and Social Security trust funds are lurching toward insolvency. Social Security is projected to cover only 81% ...

A new report says rising health care costs have pushed up the go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security. Former ...

The trust funds that the Social Security Administration relies on to pay millions of U.S. retiree benefits could be depleted ...

Social Security will be unable to pay full retirement benefits by 2034, one year earlier than previously projected, according ...

If you qualify for Social Security retirement benefits, you can choose to start receiving your monthly payments as early as ...