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Financial Planners: 4 Changes We Anticipate for Social Security in 2025 and Beyond
The adjustment is based on the consumer price index, which measures inflation, for the third quarter of the year. It goes ...
Clearing up the confusion: Social Security disability benefits and incentives to work
Disability benefits are for those who have been deemed to be unable to work, although there are all kinds of work incentives ...
This Is Exactly When You'll Find Out Your 2026 Social Security COLA
When September's CPI-W data becomes available in October, the SSA will compare the third-quarter average to the same period a ...
Treasury secretary calls new Trump accounts ‘a backdoor’ way to privatize Social Security
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday likened the Trump accounts created by Republicans’ massive new domestic policy ...
Bessent tries to walk back comments suggesting Social Security could be privatized
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is trying to walk back comments that Trump savings accounts for newborns could be a ...
How Social Security privatization could change the role of IRAs in your portfolio
There's nothing like the knowledge that your benefits aren't going to be as much as expected to inspire you to find other ...
Bessent says new Trump child savings accounts are 'back door for privatizing Social Security'
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that the Trump administration was committed to protecting Social Security ...
Social Security's 2026 Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Is Shaping Up to Be a Lose-Lose Scenario for Retirees
Not even a potentially history-making moment will be enough to prevent retirees from getting the short end of the stick, yet ...