This includes Social Security payments, a small number of which are still issued via paper checks. Critics of the policy have ...

The Social Security shortfall date just moved a little bit nearer. New federal projections, released on June 18, show that ...

The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security’s trust funds have moved up as rising health care costs and new ...

The nation’s key program for retiree benefits continues to see financing shortfalls. Unless Congress acts, those drops could ...

Social Security is dipping into its trust fund to pay current retirees, with spending outpacing its revenue from payroll ...

The official trustees now estimate the need for a 23% cut in benefits, plus 11% to Medicare, in eight years.

The annual report forecasts the date when the trust funds will run out of money, triggering sharp automatic cuts in benefits.

Ida Mae Fuller got the first Social Security check in 1940. Now, 85 years later, the last beneficiaries to receive paper ...

Advocates for Social Security's beneficiaries said Congress should act as soon as possible to avoid a benefit shortfall.

The date the programs will not be able to fully pay benefits has moved up to three years sooner than last year's estimate, ...

In the past, Social Security collections that weren’t sent out to retirees were predictably spent by politicians who exist to ...

The trust funds that the Social Security Administration relies on to pay millions of U.S. retiree benefits could be depleted ...