Claiming Social Security at 62 is not always a smart idea. If those benefits will be your main or only source of retirement ...

Social Security recipients got some decent news at the end of October. The Social Security Administration announced that in ...

If you're searching for answers about retirement, it can be frustrating when nobody can tell you what you should do, especially when it comes to a basic question that seems like it should have a ...

Many workers could increase their lifetime spending power by $182,000 by delaying Social Security retirement benefits.

For high earners approaching retirement, the key question is not whether Social Security will matter, but how much it can ...

Dear Rusty: My coffee conversations among a group of friends have resulted in several questions about Social Security: 1. What happens to the Social Security account of someone who dies before ...

In some ways, it would probably make seniors' lives easier if Social Security were to just enroll people automatically upon reaching a certain age. In that scenario, seniors would lose the opportunity ...

I recently did a couple of media interviews. One was a podcast and the other was a radio show. The hosts of both media outlets asked me essentially the same thing: “What are the most common questions ...

Inflation has a way of driving living costs up. That’s why Social Security’s annual cost-of-living adjustments, or COLAs, are ...

THE JUDGE’S RULING FOCUSES ON PRIVACY ISSUES AND THE POSSIBLE MISUSE OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION. HEY HEY HO HO! ELON MUSK HAS GOT TO GO. EARLIER THIS WEEK, DEMONSTRATORS VOICED THEIR CONCERNS. AND NOW A ...

In the 28 years I’ve been writing this column, I bet I’ve written 128 columns about the most common questions I get. However, I suppose not everyone is clipping those columns and pasting them into ...