The repeal of the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset should have restored benefits for everyone. For some retirees, the checks are still coming late or not at all.

Most retirees know the basics: claim early and get less, wait and get more. But a law signed in early 2025 rewrote rules that ...

If you count on Social Security to cover bills, even small rule changes can throw off your budget. For 2026, your check is ...

For years, many retirees faced smaller Social Security checks, or none at all, simply because of the jobs they held. But that's now changing. A new law called the Social Security Fairness Act aims to ...

Seniors who received a windfall deposit as a result of the Social Security Fairness Act are now finding that the consequences of that unexpected benefit can be costly, especially in Illinois. As a ...

A bipartisan proposal in Congress could resolve an unexpected tax problem facing millions of retirees this filing season. Processing Content The issue stems from the Social Security Fairness Act, ...

A newly introduced bill would prevent some public sector retirees from being hit with a tax bill after they were made eligible for Social Security benefits last year. The bipartisan bill, known as the ...

Social Security is a major source of income for more than 74.9 million Americans. How far does the average check actually go? Most retirees collect about $2,017 a month from Social Security as of ...