As with state and local pensions, so it is likely to be with Medicare and Social Security when their even bigger obligations ...

Social Security benefits are at risk for a "crisis" of cuts in the next decade. Here's what lawmakers say now about ...

Social Security and Medicare are known as third rails of American politics for a reason. Reducing benefits is very unpopular, but higher taxes are divisive, too — and without at least one of those two ...

The Social Security cost of living adjustment forecast rose with inflation in August, but seniors are still struggling from ...

Although Social Security's 2024 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) should be above average, not all retirees are going to ...

Goss argues that rising income inequality — with fast growth at the top and slow growth everywhere else — is the mystery ...

Social Security’s 2024 cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, is now estimated at 3.2%. That’s an increase from last month’s ...

Don’t worry, senior citizens. You’ll still get your Social Security checks if the federal government shuts down next week.

"But it shows that changes in policy and individual behavior can affect one of our federal government’s biggest programs." ...

Teachers, firefighters, cops and other public employees are retiring. They need the money they were promised. If half a billion dollars of taxpayers' money gets dropped down a well and nobody ...

If half a billion dollars of taxpayers’ money gets dropped down a well and nobody hears a sound, did taxpayers really lose out? That’s a topical question following this week’s huge bailout ...