Social Security's trust fund that helps pay retirement benefits may run out in about six years. A bipartisan group of ...

The Social Security Trustees finally released their long-awaited update on the program’s finances on June 9. The report is ...

With Social Security’s looming insolvency date roughly six years away, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is announcing plans to ...

Social Security checks could see a 22% cut in 2032 unless Congress takes steps to shore up the program. Here are 5 ideas for fixing it.

Higher-income Americans should pay more into Social Security to keep the program solvent enough to continue paying full benefits to beneficiaries, according to former Social Security Administration ...

The federal government could face hundreds of billions of dollars in additional annual borrowing needs.

U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Thom Tillis ...

Medicare's hospital insurance trust fund will be unable to pay full benefits in 2033, which could lead to higher health care costs for Americans over 65.

A CBO option would raise Social Security's full retirement age to 70 for anyone born after 1980, cutting lifetime benefits most for lower-income workers.

Over a million retired couples receive more than $100,000 in Social Security benefits each year. Capping benefits would help, ...

In a recent piece in Bloomberg, labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards proposes a solution to the Social Security trust fund shortfall: change the tax treatment of the self-employed.

The need to reform Social Security — to keep by far the most important government assistance program solvent — has long been ...