Average monthly benefits slowly creep up along with the beneficiary's claiming age. Those in the 70 to 74 age group currently ...

Social Security has a big birthday coming up next year -- it's turning 90! It's kept many millions of people out of poverty ...

Every year, the SSA's Office of the Actuary releases a breakdown detailing the average monthly benefit of retired-worker ...

It’s possible to beat the average Social Security benefit. Those who generally work longer careers — strategically increase their earnings over time — and wait as long as possible to apply ...

Social Security has been a safety net for retirees for decades, but it looked a lot different 60 years ago. Back then, any ...

The Social Security Administration issues COLAs in most years to help Social Security benefits keep up with inflation.

For more than eight decades, Social Security has been doling out ... adjusted years when calculating your monthly benefit. If you earn a higher average wage or salary throughout your lifetime ...

Workers who qualify for Social Security benefits can start collecting their monthly payments at any point ... The simple answer is that the average 70-year-old retired worker gets $2,037.54 ...

The first adjusted payments will be made in December 2024 for those who collect Supplemental Security Income (SSI), which is issued to blind and disabled Americans with little to no income and assets, ...

While seniors will get their regularly scheduled benefit checks this month, 2025 brings an entirely new cost-of-living ...

Back in 1964, the average monthly Social Security retirement benefit was just $77.57. That's about $931 annually. Adjusted for inflation, that amount would be worth approximately $784 per month in ...

Hundreds of thousands of retirees and other beneficiaries in Iowa are set to see increases to their Social Security payments ...