If you're married or have been married, here's how to find out whether you qualify for spousal benefits.

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To say the very least, you’re going to need to cut costs.

If you are 70, you've reached the latest age when you can increase your Social Security checks.

Outsize Social Security raises come with unintended consequences.

A retired couple, 68 and 66, has $1.2 million in savings, most of it in traditional IRAs, plus $58,000 a year in combined Social Security benefits. Last spring, their tax preparer told them a large ...

Hitting full retirement age flips a hidden switch inside Social Security, and most people collecting benefits have no idea ...

When researching public assistance for foreigners, the system is quite difficult to understand. In 2014, the Supreme Court ...

The bipartisan Claiming Age Clarity Act, which would revise the way the Social Security Administration describes the program’s retirement ages, passed the Senate on Tuesday and is headed to President ...

The Trump administration is sending one-time payments to some seniors on Medicare. It's the latest example of the president promising payments to Americans in the lead-up to midterm elections. The ...

Claiming Social Security early might never have been part of your game plan. You may have wanted to wait until your full ...

A long-planned Social Security rule took full effect this year. Learn how the shift to age 67 is catching retirees off guard ...