Social Security checks are increasing for almost 3 million Americans. Here's how to find out if you'll benefit—and when.

For decades, Americans have seen lower Social Security checks if they fall into the circumstances under the WEP and GPO.

Over 2 million Social Security beneficiaries had their retirement incomes reduced because of two programs. Here's how the ...

New law means police officers, teachers and others with public pensions will now collect their full Social Security benefits.

Teachers, firefighters, police and others who earn a separate pension for government work will now get their full Social Security benefits.

Social Security has often been called the "third rail" of American politics. This saying stems from the high-voltage third ...

Biden estimated the bill should lead to an average monthly increase of $360 for certain public employees and their spouses and survivors. The outgoing president said more than 2.5 million Americans ...

Alicia H. Munnell is a columnist for MarketWatch and senior advisor of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. She founded the Center for Retirement Research in 1998 and served as ...

In a big legislative move, the United States Senate has passed the Social Security Fairness Act, a bill aimed at addressing long-standing disparities in Social Security benefits for millions of public ...

Bipartisan support for the Social Security Fairness Act The Social Security Fairness Act, one of the most bipartisan bills in Congress this session, aims to repeal WEP and GPO. Social Security is ...

So how did we get here? Can we bring this program back onto stable ground? The Social Security Act of 1935 signed by President Roosevelt intended to reduce poverty among the elderly by ...