Last Saturday (January 31) marked the 75th anniversary of the first monthly Social Security check. The first check was sent out on Jan. 1, 1940, to a retired schoolteacher named Ida ...

Social Security’s disability fund could run out of money by 2016. In the past, shortfalls in the disability program have been addressed by shifting money into the disability fund ...

Debates about reforming Social Security usually center on cutting benefits, raising the retirement age or increasing taxes. But there’s a new idea floating around that claims it can ...