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According to the Social Security Administration (SSA), nearly 70 million Americans received benefits in 2020. The SSA noted that as of December of that year, the average monthly benefit for retired women was $1,378 and $1,714 for retired men. Keep reading to learn about some new Social Se...
Social Security begins notifying people about their new benefit amount by mail starting in early December. This year, for the first time, Social Security beneficiaries will receive a newly designed and improved COLA notice that makes it easier for customers to find...
help tell you how much of your benefits may be adjusted if you worked in jobs where you earned a pension and did not pay Social Security taxes. Those offsets are known as the Windfall Elimination Provision or Government Pension Offset and affect both you and your family's benefit eligibility...
The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, could be 2.5% next year, Mary Johnson, an independent Social Security and Medicare analyst, predicted last month. With that change, the average retired workers' benefit of $1,920 would rise by $48 per month, according to Johnson...
The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced earlier this month that benefits are set to rise by 8.7% in 2023, the biggest bump since 1981, when recipients saw an 11.2% jump. It will increase the average monthly benefit by about $146 to $1,827 in 2023 from $1,681...
In a statement, the Social Security Administration told us "our payment accuracy rates are high," yet "even small error rates add up to substantial improper payment amounts." The agency said it's "required by law" to recover this money…and added that overpayments are not nece...
The roughly 70 million people who receive Social Security payments will soon learn how much they'll receive in their 2025 benefit checks, with the program's annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to be announced within days. Each fall, the Social Security Administration sets its annual COLA ...
The Social Security Fairness Act overwhelmingly passed the House in early December and on December 18 cleared a key Senate procedural vote by 73 to 27. …half a century ago, Congress realized that Social Security benefit windfalls for public sector employees were costly, unnecessary and unmerited....
For example, Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries will receive a 2.5% COLA in 2025. They received a 3.2% COLA in 2024, 8.7% in 2023, and 5.9% in 2022.11 PIA determines the monthly Social Security benefit that will be received in the first year of benefit...