What Social Security Fails To Tell You Can Cost You Dearly TSCL hears from people every day about the adequacy of their benefits.  People who began collecting benefits at 62 frequently tell us they were unaware of the ...

Could You Survive A 21% Benefit Cut? The upcoming election has important implications for the future of your Social Security benefits.  While voters have heard a great deal from the candidates for months, specifics of ...

78% Of Older Voters Support Strengthening Social Security By Raising Payroll Taxes Voters have opposed benefit cuts in the past as a way to fix Social Security.  But TSCL’s new 2016 Senior Survey found that older voter ...

What do older voters think about the back-door debt limit deal tactics of using Social Security cuts in exchange for lifting the debt limit?  The single biggest government account holding federal debt is the Social Secur ...

Congress recently enacted legislation that ended two so-called Social Security benefit “loopholes” — known as “file and suspend” and “restricted application.”  Details about the changes, which affect some married couples ...

Congress recently enacted legislation that ended two so-called Social Security benefit “loopholes” — known as “file and suspend” and “restricted application.”  Details about the changes, which affect some married couples ...

Today’s almost non-existent interest rates on U.S. Treasury bonds are hastening the insolvency of the Social Security Trust Fund, says a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The CBO said that the shortf ...

Social Security recipients often worry whether their benefits will be paid as promised throughout retirements that could last 25 years or more. Anxiety over impending changes to Social Security leads some people to claim ...

Social Security recipients often worry whether their benefits will be paid as promised throughout retirements that could last 25 years or more. Anxiety over impending changes to Social Security leads some people to claim ...