These programs are the biggest part of the budget, and cuts to them feel personal, one expert says. Reducing them has been tough historically.

The Senior Citizens League keeps raising its forecast for Social Security's 2025 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA).

Social Security doesn’t get as many headlines right now, but it remains a key issue — especially for Americans at or nearing ...

Not long ago, senior citizens got the two biggest annual increases in their monthly Social Security checks that most had ever ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which runs the program, just announced two major changes for 2025 you’ll want to know about. Next year, Medicare will also dramatically alter ...

A new campaign season has predictably brought a new round of partisan Social Security wars. Even as the system’s trust fund moves within a decade of insolvency—which would trigger an automatic 23 ...

More than half of Americans in swing states say that they support a reduction of benefits for higher-income recipients to ...

• How to update your info: If you’re receiving Social Security retirement, survivors or disability benefits, it’s required ...

More than one-quarter of U.S. adults over age 50 say they expect to never retire and 70% are concerned about prices rising ...

Dear Savvy Senior: Next month, I am moving to a different state so I can be near my daughter and grandkids. Do I need to ...

QUESTION: Next month I am moving to a different state so I can be near my daughter and grandkids. Do I need to notify Social Security and Medicare about the move? ANSWER: Yes, if you're a Social ...

QUESTION: Next month I am moving to a different state so I can be near my daughter and grandkids. Do I need to notify Social Security and Medicare about the move? ANSWER: Yes, if you’re a Social ...