West Virginia is phasing out its tax on Social Security benefits. For 2025 returns (filed in 2026), 65% of benefits will be ...

Financial experts Suze Orman and Dave Ramsey offer dramatically different advice on when to claim Social Security benefits.

The debate over private accounts involves differing ideas of government’s proper role and of what Social Security is. Proponents of private accounts argue that individual Americans should have more ...

Social Security's annual inflation boost is on the chopping block, and the stakes are enormous for retirees who rely on every ...

Both (privatizing) plans involve requiring younger workers to contribute money to an IRA-type account that would offer several investment options. Portra / Getty Images Well, once again, the idea of ...

The benefits provide important economic support for older people who cannot work. The White House recently halted changes to ...

(The Center Square) – On the day before Social Security’s 90th anniversary, fiscal watchdogs are urging Congress to seriously address the program’s impending funding shortfalls – particularly in light ...

The current Social Security debate clearly points to the serious and ongoing need for financial education in this country - regardless of whether Social Security is eventually privatized, but ...

WASHINGTON President Bush is trying to keep the word "private" from going public. As the two parties brace for the coming debate over restructuring Social Security, polls and focus groups for both ...

As the debate about Social Security continues, the major news media often pass along the misinformation of partisans without providing, when available, definitive, contradictory information to the ...

To make the debate even more vehement, there is little common ground here. People disagree over what Social Security is – a pension fund or an insurance program to guarantee some degree of economic ...