The cost of living in each state is the key factor in how much you need in retirement. In Alabama, the annual cost of living ...

Here's the average Social Security benefit for people age 65. Waiting longer to claim benefits, even past retirement age, can ...

There are a couple of factors that go into calculating your monthly Social Security benefit -- namely, your earnings history ...

If you want to do your own calculations, you can check your estimated benefit at different ages with your Social Security ...

At least 10,000 people retire every day in the United States, with nearly half of them relying on Social Security as their ...

A significant part of this planning involves estimating potential Social Security benefits and determining how much one can ...

On the one hand, that's an increase from the 2.3% projection the group put out earlier in the year. On the other hand, a 2.4% ...

The third round of Social Security payments are headed out. Here's the schedule for the month of June.

Social Security retirement claims tend to follow a seasonal pattern each year, and they increase over time with the aging of ...

The agency that collects the data used to determine the cost-of-living-adjustment has had to pull back on how much data it ...

This rush job risks people’s private data, creates security gaps, and could result in catastrophic cuts to all benefits,” ...

Janice’s husband died suddenly last year after having a stroke. The couple were a few years away from retirement. Janice, 62, ...