Social Security

Providing for a disabled descendant is a highly complex challenge, and botching it can have tragic results. Here's how advisors can help clients thread the needle.

With a prediction of a historically high Social Security COLA, some worry about tax consequences

Americans are losing ground against other countries in what's shaping up to be "one of the worst years to retire in recent memory."

Many see Social Security reform as needed but question remedies put forward by Rep. Angie Craig and others in Congress.

As the U.S. reforms its retirement system, one federal agency is looking abroad for new ideas. Some of them are already in bills moving through Congress.

Americans are facing a $7.1 trillion retirement savings shortfall. Will Congress do anything about it?

For a century, Americans were retiring younger and younger. Then, in the 1990s, the average retirement age started to shoot back up. What happened?

A new study says millennials should only expect 80% of their projected benefits, but there are ways to make up for the shortfall.

With five charts analyzing the latest figures, separate fact from fiction while Congress keeps failing to enact any comprehensive reform.

With long COVID a major theme, lawmakers discussed how to increase access to financial services for people with disabilities.