Fixing Social Security doesn’t necessarily have to require slashing benefits, according to the findings of TSCL’s annual 2015 Senior Survey. Almost 1,200 survey participants weighed in on a range of proposals that would ...

Does Social Security Provide Enough Income For Today’s Retirees? More people than ever face a lower standard of living in retirement, according to a growing number of troubling new studies. There are several reasons w ...

Mary Johnson Unreported deaths undoubtedly rank as the Social Security Administration’s number one “Most Gruesome Fraud Management Failures.” Hardly a month goes by without the discovery of a grizzly new case. Usually ...

In the debate over Social Security’s funding, much of the debate has focused on benefit cuts. A recent survey by the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI), however, shows that benefit cuts aren’t supported by a lar ...

Social Security Demanding Repayment For (Very) Old Debts If one of your parents died when you were a child, and the other was paid more in Social Security survivors than you were entitled to, should you be held respon ...

The U.S. House sent a strong signal of its plans for Social Security the first day of the new Congress. A new procedural rule may make Social Security benefit cuts much more likely in the near future. At issue is the sol ...

How generous are U.S. Social Security benefits, and how likely are today's retirees to enjoy a secure retirement? Some Members of Congress and policy makers say that retirees and disabled beneficiaries are "over paid." T ...

Social Security's Looming $230 Per Month Benefit Cut: Where's The Plan To Stop It? The Social Security Disability Trust Fund has about two years left to go before all the reserves in the trust fund are depleted. If Co ...

The Social Security Administration recently called a halt to a controversial effort to collect debts that were more than 10 years old.  For the past three years the government has confiscated tax refunds of hundreds of t ...