The increased payments are tied to a recent Social Security rule change that could mean thousands more for widows and divorced spouses. Are you eligible?

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Social Security updates include COLA, taxable earnings, credit thresholds and retirement earnings test limits.

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

Filing for Social Security at the wrong age can permanently shrink your monthly checks in ways most retirees never fully recover from. Before you sign up, there are five questions worth asking ...

Claiming Social Security at 62 can actually make sense for a lot of reasons. Here are three of them.

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 ...

I'm always amazed that the most insignificant of all Social Security benefits seems so significant to so many people. I am ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...