An annual government report offered a glimmer of good news for Social Security and a jolt of good news for Medicare even as ...
Dire new budget projections and high-stakes policy deadlines mean lawmakers may be forced to take up the issue — or face the ...
Federal officials said they expect Social Security will deplete its combined reserves and run out of money to fully pay ...
An aging population is pushing up the cost of the program as a smaller share of people are paying into it, and spending is ...
An annual government report offered a glimmer of good news for Social Security and a jolt of good news for Medicare even as ...
The financial health of Social Security and Medicare, two of the nation’s most crucial safety net programs, improved this ...
Social Security is expected to hit insolvency in 2035, while a portion of Medicare will be insolvent by 2036. What are we ...
Stronger-than-expected economic growth last year drove improvements to the fiscal health of the trust funds that finance ...
Medicare recipients got a brutal warning this week as the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services appear to only be able to fully cover seniors for roughly the next decade.
Social Security and Medicare will run out of money in just over a decade ... but renewing the whole package would add $3 trillion over the next decade to the nation’s already enormous burden of $28 ...
Social Security and Medicare advocates are celebrating a win — albeit a small one — after the Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds announced the programs’ go-broke dates have been ...
Life expectancy at birth has increased by nearly 16 years since the program started, yet the Social Security eligibility age ...