In four days, millions of Social Security recipients will receive their first monthly retirement checks of 2025. Social ...

We're a couple of days into 2025 and the COLA increase has officially gone into effect. Social Security (retirement and ...

Note, too, that there are multiple ways to increase your Social Security benefits, such as delaying claiming them. Another ...

Anyone who has been collecting Social Security benefits for a few years knows that the 2025 COLA is smaller than what they ...

So, anyone that claims Social Security as soon as possible — thereby incurring the largest benefit reduction (30% for those ...

When Morningstar released its first safe withdrawal report in 2021, the highest starting safe withdrawal rate was 3.3%. In 2022, it was 3.8%.

Some people haven't received all their Social Security benefits, even though they paid into the system. A new law changes ...

The second round of January’s Social Security payments, worth up to $5,108 for the highest-income earners who retire at age ...

Social Security benefits are typically based on a person’s 35 highest-earning years of work, but if your spouse earned significantly more or your history is limited you could benefit more from spousal ...

An estimated 72.5 million Social Security recipients will benefit from a 2.5 percent increase in their payments this year thanks to the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA).

Over 29 million lost 401(k) accounts worth almost $1.65 trillion have been forgotten by their owners. Here are eight ways you ...

You can, however, choose to claim as early as 62. If you do so, however, you'll be penalized. Each month before your FRA ...