The SSA will enforce stricter rules affecting benefit payments for 72.5mn Americans. Beneficiaries must report personal ...

The retirement age for full Social Security benefits in the U.S. will rise to 67 by 2025 for those born in 1960 or later, ...

The Social Security Administration says it has processed 2.5 million retroactive payments to people previously locked out of ...

A pair of quiet rule changes, one that has just landed in June, could mean smaller monthly checks for some groups of society.

The House of Representatives is proposing a significant change to Social Security rules that would impact millions of ...

For nearly 70 million Americans, Social Security benefits are a crucial financial resource. However, the complexity of the ...

Major Social Security updates, now in effect as of April 2025, stand to reshape benefits for millions of Americans. From bigger checks to new identification rules, these changes could have a ...

It's understandable if you're confused about what's happening -- there have been some back-and-forth changes. At first, the Social Security Administration rolled back rules so that if an ...

The change in identification verification rules coincides with a policy change that will allow recipients getting Social Security benefits via direct deposit to make changes more quickly.

First the good news: the SSA will be expediting all direct deposit change requests ... The new verification rules will still apply to new applications for Retirement, Survivors, or Auxiliary ...

But in the opening weeks of the administration, rules changes and staff ... Trump’s acting commissioner of Social Security, has enacted two significant process changes that the SSA says are ...