A: You and your friends are all wrong. Social Security retirement benefits are based on the highest 35 years of earnings.

If you have at least 35 years of earnings at or above the threshold, you may be in line for the maximum possible benefit in ...

The nation’s key program for retiree benefits continues to see financing shortfalls. Unless Congress acts, those drops could ...

The cost-of-living adjustment, commonly referred to as COLA, has been a long-standing element of Social Security benefits, ...

The Social Security taxable wage base is set to rise in 2025, impacting how much high-income earners contribute.

Lawmakers quietly added a fund intended to comply with federal rules about pensions for newer state workers. If it works, ...

Social Security might feel like something to worry about later, but for Gen X, later is coming up fast. The decisions you ...

The Social Security taxable earnings base will go up from $160,200 in 2023 to $168,600 in 2024. In other words, people who earn more than $168,600 in 2024 will no longer have Social Security ...

Israel has killed an October 7 mastermind in its latest wave of strikes against Iran, a day after Tehran said it would not ...

I've written many columns explaining how Social Security benefits are figured. So, I'm not really going to do that today.