Currently, only the first $176,100 of a worker's annual income is subject to the 6.2 percent Social Security payroll tax, which is matched by employers to make a total contribution of 12.4 percent.

Amid this troubling data, AARP CEO Myechia Minter-Jordan had a blunt nine-word warning to share in a conference call ...

Her focus is reporting on Social Security, other government benefits and personal finance. She has previously extensively ...

Social Security will continue mailing paper checks — in a major U-turn from a previously announced plan . The agency had ...

The Social Security Administration quietly corrected a blog post that had asserted that the recent federal budget bill ...

Younger Americans tend to worry more about Social Security than older Americans. In the new AARP survey, 25% of people ages ...

A ‘sovereign wealth fund’ won’t fill the funding gap and may actually make the problem worse.

As Social Security nears its 90th anniversary, Americans’ confidence in the future of the program has dropped. Here’s what to ...

Social Security stands as a vital pillar of financial support for millions of American retirees and seniors, providing a crucial safety net in their later years.