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Social Security payments reportedly will rise over 9% next year. Will that be enough?
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Older workers who lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic have dropped out of the workforce or are having more difficulty finding new jobs than are younger workers.
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Should the Social Security Administration be allowed to invest in stocks? If so, what should the limits be?
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A cost of living adjustment brought payouts up by 1.6% for the more than 63 million Americans who take Social Security benefits starting in January of 2020.
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A recent survey of financial advisors highlights client worries about the future of Social Security.
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Social Security's expected payouts will exceed its income next year. That would mark the first such year its income and expenses have been inverted since 1982.
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The release Monday of the annual report on the status of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds indicates that we're coming closer to the end of full benefit payments.
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The Congressional Budget Office Tuesday projected that U.S. debt repayment will equal Social Security spending by 2048.
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ZTE may have set a deal with the U.S. government, China offers to buy more U.S. goods and services, stock buybacks top $200 billion in May, and other important headlines.
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Millions of Social Security recipients and retirees will receive a 2% increase in benefits next year, the largest gain since 2012.
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Two recent reports have looked in depth at the workings of the Social Security Administration (SSA). Both have found — unsurprisingly — that SSA has some problems, and these problems directly...
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The U.S. Census Bureau expects the country to have 98 million residents ages 65 and older by 2060.
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Most people are called the name they were given at birth for their entire lives, and for that reason, the name of a child is often given intense consideration. Like most aspects of child-rearing,...
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ThinkstockBy far the single most common contributing program to a retiree’s household income is Social Security. And the lower a person’s retirement income, the bigger role Social Security plays....
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New research from MIT indicates that nearly half of Americans die with essentially no financial assets. About 46% of U.S. senior citizens hold less than $10,000 in assets at the time of their deaths...
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