Social Security is quietly undergoing one of its biggest overhauls in years, reshaping how benefits are calculated, delivered and protected. For retirees and near-retirees, these shifts create both ...

Two laws enacted in 2025, President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill" and the Social Security Fairness Act, may change beneficiaries' federal tax liability on their benefits. Here's how those ...

The political fight over how to treat public servants in the Social Security system effectively ended earlier this year, when Congress finished work on a sweeping overhaul that had been decades in the ...