Social Security benefits are at risk for a "crisis" of cuts in the next decade. Here's what lawmakers say now about ...

As with state and local pensions, so it is likely to be with Medicare and Social Security when their even bigger obligations ...

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Social Security and Medicare are known as third rails of American politics for a reason. Reducing benefits is very unpopular, but higher taxes are divisive, too — and without at least one of those two ...

While Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid recipients shouldn't panic, the economy could take a hit, policy analysts say.

Social Security's trust funds are projected to be depleted by 2033, at which point retirees would see a significant cut to ...

Until Congress stops sending monthly checks to wealthy seniors, everything else will be on the chopping block.

It also calls for the establishment of a “bipartisan debt commission” to crack down on Social Security and Medicare.

Don’t worry, senior citizens. You’ll still get your Social Security checks if the federal government shuts down next week.

Depending on who you ask, the Republican budget proposal released this week either does or does not include cuts to social ...

Teachers, firefighters, cops and other public employees are retiring. They need the money they were promised. If half a billion dollars of taxpayers' money gets dropped down a well and nobody ...

If half a billion dollars of taxpayers’ money gets dropped down a well and nobody hears a sound, did taxpayers really lose out? That’s a topical question following this week’s huge bailout ...