Social Security's 2025 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) bumped the average benefit from $1,927 per month to $1,976 per month. It's a $49 increase, but many hoped for more. Despite slowing inflation, some retirees still find it difficult to make ends meet,

Social Security is an earned benefit. You become eligible by paying the payroll tax during your working years, and the amount you get is geared to your wage history - with a glaring exception.

If you wait to claim spousal benefits until your full retirement age, you can receive up to half the amount of your spouse's benefit.

If you were planning to retire next year, double check your math because a law passed in the ’80s is annually raising the age when Americans can collect their full Social Security benefits. And next year is no exception.

The Senate voted early Saturday morning to repeal two laws that prevent many public employees from receiving Social Security, a move that is expected to weigh on the overall solvency of the Social Security system.

I wrote about the Social Security Fairness Act, a bill intended to give relief to individuals who earned a pension from work outside Social Security and who also had also done other work where they paid FICA taxes and therefore earned benefits from Social Security.