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Craig Cheney travels the country making people mad.

Rep. Henry Cuellar celebrated a 20-year effort as HR 82 becomes law, boosting benefits for teachers, firefighters and other ...

Divorced spouses can also qualify for these benefits, as long as you're not currently married and your previous marriage ...

Social Security payments are based on the earnings throughout a retiree’s life and have no limits based on income.

Retired public workers will get check adjustments and retro pay under the recently signed Social Security Fairness Act.

Note, too, that there are multiple ways to increase your Social Security benefits, such as delaying claiming them. Another ...

Anyone who has been collecting Social Security benefits for a few years knows that the 2025 COLA is smaller than what they ...

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%.

Mavious Redmond allegedly pretended to be her dead mother for more than two decades in order to receive the monthly benefits.