For retirees, healthcare expenses are unavoidable and increasingly unaffordable. Fidelity Research says a 65-year-old ...

We're headed into February and next set of Social Security Disability Insurance payments will be heading out to recipients ...

Over 162,000 New Jerseyans who are low-income, blind or disabled and rely on payments from the Social Security Administration ...

Social Security benefits form the bedrock of income for millions of Americans—and those who claim Supplemental Security Income (SSI) will be paid this week. Adults and children with disabilities, or ...

One positive aspect of Social Security is that the program is set up to adapt to economic changes. Each year, for example, ...

The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for 2025 is the lowest since the post-Covid inflation spike. Yet retirees still ...

This is intended to help seniors and other Social Security recipients keep up with inflation and is based on Consumer Price ...

It has been my custom for most of the past 27 years to write a year-end column that summarizes the Social Security updates scheduled to take place the following year. I already discussed some of ...

What's more, surveys have shown that Social Security checks are necessary for seniors to make ends meet. A poll from ...

The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) applied to Social Security payments in any given year is based on CPI-W inflation from ...

Checks are issued throughout the month, based on the recipient's birth date or the duration of time they have been receiving benefits.