Both of those numbers are above recent forecasts from the Senior Citizen's League and independent analyst Mary Johnson. Both ...

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Social Security benefits have had a cost of living adjustment since 1975. Only twice since then have we had a zero increase, 2010 and 2011. This year the adjustment was 1.7%.

The History of Your Social Security Payments originally appeared on usnews.com. Update 05/02/22: This story was published at an earlier date and has been updated with new information.

Social Security is facing a shortfall, but we've been here before, and history suggests the problem will be solved. Social Security is facing a shortfall.

Many people were involved in making Social Security happen. But one often-overlooked person deserves a great deal of credit: Frances Perkins. She was FDR’s secretary of labor, and it was her ...

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To learn from history, we must first understand more about the timing of Social Security COLAs. The most important thing to know is that the COLAs are paid after beneficiaries have incurred higher ...

To be sure, billionaires are far more likely to max out Social Security than the average person. Many billionaires easily ...