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The Social Security Board of Trustees Just Updated Its 2026 Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Forecast. Here's How Much Your Benefits Could Increase.
Social Security COLA is based on inflation during July, August, and September. The Board of Trustees files a report with ...
Claiming Social Security at 62: How much you'll actually receive and what it costs you
When you've spent four decades or more in the workforce, it's understandable to be drawn to the idea of claiming those ...
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What’s really going on with Social Security? Here’s what the latest numbers say
The same approach could work again: thoughtful, phased reforms that maintain the program’s core protections. Ideas on the ...
How an annuity can impact your Social Security benefits
Pairing an annuity and Social Security can have a big, and perhaps surprising, impact on your retirement plan.
Social Security pulls field office staff to answer overwhelmed phone line
The agency said it is temporarily reassigning about 1,000 customer service representatives from field offices to work on the ...
Claimed Social Security Early? You Can Go Back to Work -- but You May Have This Hiccup
But if you claimed Social Security early and are now thinking about going back to work, you'll need to be careful. Though you ...
What Happens to Your Social Security When You Die?
Social Security benefits end when you die, unless you have a qualifying beneficiary who would begin to receive survivorship ...
Social Security Warning Issued as Agency Moves 1,000 Staffers
The Social Security Administration reassigned about 1,000 customer service representatives from field offices to its national ...