There are several important things you should know about Social Security. For example, American workers should know that the Social Security Administration takes your 35 highest inflation-adjusted ...

A recent graduate of the University of Minnesota, Nina started at CNET writing breaking news stories before shifting to covering Security Security and other government benefit programs. In her spare ...

Your benefit statement should have been mailed in January. Here's what it's for and how to request another one if you lost it. Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus ...

Social Security is once again sending out clearly false benefit statements. If the code generating the statements is generating actual benefit payments, millions of Americans may be receiving too ...

Checking your Social Security statement is a must-do before you claim Social Security benefits. Your Social Security statement contains tons of valuable information, including the impact of waiting a ...

Effective September 18, 2021, plan administrators of ERISA-covered defined contribution plans must update their benefit statements to display each participant’s account balance expressed as both a ...

The Social Security Administration no longer mails paper Social Security statements to most people under age 60. Younger workers who want to check their earnings history or taxes paid need to create a ...

Tax season is almost upon us, and it might be a good idea to get prepared ahead of time. If you receive Social Security benefits, you might not have to file taxes for 2025, but it depends on your ...