When it comes to the future of Social Security, I like the way Swedish author and historian Johan Norberg put it recently in ...

Given the state of Social Security's trust funds and how the program integrates with Medicare and the tax code, it makes ...

Social Security to face key deadline in next decade Social Security will face a critical inflection point in the next decade. The latest projections from the Social Security board of trustees find ...

That's a little progress. But Biden wants to spend a record $7 trillion next year. McCarthy said Medicare and Social Security were "completely off the table." So the programs are still doomed.

Older Americans should expect a sharply lower cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in their Social Security benefits next year if inflation ... lower than the four-decade high of 8.7% COLA in 2023.

The government is projecting a slight cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security benefits next year, the first increase since 2009. But for most beneficiaries, rising Medicare premiums threaten ...

The conservative Club for Growth group is airing a new ad that tees up attacks on former President Donald Trump's stances on ...

After securing a debt ceiling agreement that caps federal spending and threatens food aid for hundreds of thousands of poor ...

Many congressional Republicans support what they see as a logical way to keep key parts of the federal government running if it hits the current debt limit before there is an agreement to raise it ...

Payments like Social Security, Medicare, tax refunds ... Prioritizing who comes next is the "big question mark" in the grand scheme of unknowns, said Snyderman of the Bipartisan Policy Center.

The 2023 Social Security raise is the highest since 1981 and the fourth-largest COLA in the program's history. In the decade ... Medicare participants will pay lower premiums next year.

Even with the new spending restraints in the debt limit deal, the U.S. government’s deficits are still on course to keep ...