To qualify for Social Security as a retiree, you need to earn 40 work credits in your lifetime, at a maximum of four credits ...

The annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, is one of the most important features of the government program. Without those annual raises, seniors would quickly find the purchasing ...

A new year brings fresh changes to Social Security. One of the most prominent changes is the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) ...

Every year, the Social Security Administration (SSA) provides a cost-of-living adjustment to help beneficiaries keep up with ...

If a worker opts to retire and start receiving their Social Security checks at the earliest possible age of 62, their maximum monthly benefit would be $2,710. Benefit amounts will soon rise however, ...

An estimated 96.7% of adults aged 60 to 89 receive Social Security. Although the average monthly benefit amount for retired workers was just $1,920 in August 2024, Social Security constitutes a large ...

The holidays come with tempting year-end deals on luxury cars, and retirement can feel like the perfect time to splurge on a ...

[Editor's Note: Military COLA is linked to the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), which is the same index Social Security is linked to. Specifically, it looks at ...

The odds of finding it were probably less than finding a needle in a haystack and the fact that we were able to go over and ...

Periods of snow, some of it moderate to heavy, overnight with gusty north winds. Lows will drop into the teens, 20s and 30s. Snow continues on Wednesday with some breaks possible, especially north of ...

Thousands of fans streamed into Great American Ball Park despite steady rain on Sunday to pay respects to Pete Rose, baseball’s career hits leader, who died Sept. 30 at the ...

Many veterans who’ve started small businesses tell a similar story: Their military service prepared them mentally for the task, but they were at a disadvantage when it came to the ...