Understanding each part of your federal retirement can help you plan when and how to retire and avoid surprises.

AARP, along with the HerMoney founder and former NBC "Today" show financial editor, have an important message for American workers saving for retirement.

About 56 million Americans do not have access to a retirement savings plan at work. The Trump administration plans to launch ...

SSA data shows how much upper-class retirees receive in Social Security at age 83, and why high earners can collect far more ...

On the state level, AARP has supported “work and save” programs such as state-facilitated automatic IRAs, that fill the gap ...

President Donald Trump in his State of the Union address Tuesday briefly mentioned his intention to help private-sector workers save for retirement if they don’t have access to an employer-sponsored ...

The problem with overreliance on Social Security.

About 50 million workers lack access to employer-sponsored retirement plans, a hurdle to setting aside money for old age.

President Trump proposed creating a new, government-backed “American Retirement Plus” savings program during his State of the ...

Social Security beneficiaries have seen some big changes over the last 13 months.