New Social Security rules may shrink monthly budgets for fixed-income retirees—learn how these changes could affect your ...

The Social Security Administration has launched massive structural and financial overhauls, accelerating billions in mandated ...

Some seniors say the Social Security Administration's cost-of-living adjustment won’t help much in their ability to pay for ...

If not for the government shutdown, Social Security beneficiaries would have discovered the extent of the COLA hike for 2026 when new inflation data was released Oct. 15. In 2025, Social Security and ...

Social Security is a complex program that has undergone a number of changes since the program was signed into law in 1935. One of those changes? The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), which came to ...

Social Security recipients will now know when they will receive their cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for the next year. Initially, the date for the 2026 COLA announcement was supposed to be Oct.

The ongoing government shutdown is delaying the announcement of the annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for tens of millions of beneficiaries.Originally scheduled for Wednesday, the 2024 ...

Of the over 71 million Americans who receive regular Social Security payments, some may have begun receiving smaller checks. However, the payments should arrive on schedule nonetheless. October's ...

Will the government shutdown affect Social Security payments this month? On Oct. 1, the federal government shut down as lawmakers failed to reach an agreement over funding, causing some services to ...

Social Security and Supplemental Security Income payments will continue as scheduled during the government shutdown. The 2026 cost-of-living adjustment announcement was delayed but is now scheduled ...

The second wave of Social Security payments for the month of October is set to be distributed this week, with this month marking the first under the agency’s new paperless policy. Starting in October, ...