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Social Security Makes Major Change to Payments: What to Know
This includes Social Security payments, a small number of which are still issued via paper checks. Critics of the policy have ...
Social Security’s Finances Erode Further, Risking Benefit Cuts
The nation’s key program for retiree benefits continues to see financing shortfalls. Unless Congress acts, those drops could ...
Social Security will stop sending paper checks soon. How to make sure you still get your benefits on time.
Ida Mae Fuller got the first Social Security check in 1940. Now, 85 years later, the last beneficiaries to receive paper ...
FDR's grandson discusses Social Security, Medicare go-broke dates being moved up
A new report says rising health care costs have pushed up the go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security. Former ...
Social Security Payments: Checks Worth Up to $5,108 Due This Week
The cost-of-living adjustment, commonly referred to as COLA, has been a long-standing element of Social Security benefits, ...
Social Security fund may run dry sooner than previously expected, trustees say
The Social Security fund will run dry in 2033, unless Congress combines the program’s old-age and disability funds, in which ...
I’m ready to retire, and considering taking my ex-husband’s Social Security at 65 and cashing out my 401(k). But should I?
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