Governor Asa Hutchinson is attempting to renew Arkansas’ Private Option Medicaid expansion, but the fate of this decision rests with the results of the Senate primaries. Hutchinson’s ...

A new study by Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research has found that raising the retirement age could disproportionately hurt workers from poor socioeconomic backgrounds. To ...

Social Security benefits have provided essential care for our retired, elderly and disabled for nearly a century. However, with the changing economic tides, the parameters of the benefits ...

Senator Ron Wyden (D. Oregon) introduced a bill on December 10, 2015 that would allow people in debt to the government to maintain their Social Security benefits. At present, Americans ...

Social Security payments could be getting smaller for some seniors. The government has closed two loopholes that can negatively affect recipients. One loophole let married couples ...

Here’s a discussion with Jeffrey Maggioncalda, CEO of Financial Engines, on overlooked Social Security investment strategies — and how to maximize retirement income.   Cover ...

Before this week, it had only happened two times since 1975. Now, it’s happening again. There will be no Social Security benefit increase in 2016. Benefits change on a year-to-year ...

Here’s a chart that shows the percentage of a retiree’s income stream that comes from various sources. More people are drawing pensions today than they were 40 years ago ...

Here’s a segment from PBS NewsHour that explores the idea of raising the limit on the amount of income subject to payroll taxes. How much would raising the cap help Social Security’s ...

Here’s a segment from PBS NewsHour that examines the pros and cons of reducing Social Security benefits by tying them to cost-of-living increases rather than wage increases. ...