SSA and Treasury Department officials underscored that neither agency will ever request payment to expedite or set up benefits. Individuals facing hardship or without access to digital payment methods ...

Congress didn’t eliminate taxes on Social Security income; the deduction is a back-door way to reduce seniors’ taxable income, including the retirement benefits. For example, a high roller or ...

There is an array of opinion about government safety nets. What should they encompass? Should they even exist? Watching ...

We also worry that our Social Security and Medicare benefits will be stripped away. We rely on them to live. We both paid ...

The Social Security Fairness Act ends WEP and GPO reductions, boosting benefits for many—but not all eligible recipients are automatically included.

Dr. Kiame Mahaniah, undersecretary of health in the office since April 2023, will take over as the agency’s secretary on ...

Truong Nguyen took the name, birth certificate and Social Security number of a Boston boy who died in 2002 at age 13.

From health insurance to immigration enforcement and higher ed taxes, the WBUR newsroom took a look at how some key ...

Now two US senators, Republican Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Democrat Tim Kaine of Virginia, have offered a bipartisan ...

The newly enacted Social Security Fairness Act has delivered significant relief and positive news for approximately 2.8 million public sector retirees in the United States.

A Vietnamese national living in Braintree has been sentenced to prison for stealing the identity of a dead 13-year-old for ...

The Social Security Administration reassigned about 1,000 customer service representatives from field offices to its national ...