Social Security

“I want to make sure we maximize our Social Security payments.” “I am very concerned that we will make a wrong decision and leave Social Security money on the table.” ...

I was recently going through some old family photo albums with my grandkids. One album covered the reasonably ...

Most readers of my column are very nice and very normal people. Some are more progressive in their ...

In this episode, NTD talks to Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law School professor emeritus and constitutional law expert, about ...

Recently, I’ve received emails from several readers who asked questions about something they call the “spousal bump.” It’s ...

Sometimes, when I write a column about a certain topic, that column seems to generate more questions than ...

I write a column similar to this one every January. But I don’t mind plagiarizing myself, because it ...

It has been my custom for most of the past 23 years to write a year-end column that ...

I know many people are saying, “Good riddance” to 2020, partly due to political turmoil but primarily due ...

Dear Carrie: I just retired and am trying to figure out how to maximize all of my resources—Social ...

First of all, let me wish a heartfelt happy holidays to all the wonderful readers of my column. ...

I get a lot of emails from women who have questions about the widows benefits they are already ...

I’ve pointed out many times how people are quick to gripe about the government in general and the ...

Let me ask a question. If your furnace stopped working on the coldest day of the year, would ...

Every single day, more than a few of the emails I get from readers start out with this ...

I was just looking at a photo album with highlights of a memorable trip my wife and I ...

I really don’t have any way of knowing this, but I’m guessing the majority of my readers are ...

More than a few husbands and wives are involved in some kind of mom-and-pop business. And over the ...

I get hundreds of letters from my readers every week. And from them, I can glean a lot ...

House Democrats plan to introduce a bill to raise the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment from 1.3 percent to ...

Q: My purse was stolen, and now I worry that someone might be using my Social Security number. ...

President Donald Trump’s ongoing battle with the U.S. Postal Service and its funding has a small fraction of ...

It never ceases to amaze me how millions of misinformed Americans think that Social Security disability benefits are ...

Commentary My inbox has been inundated with emails from worried senior citizens who tell me they have heard ...

I frequently get emails from people who have lost out on Social Security benefits they might have been ...

I’m going to start this column at the bottom! Or, rather, with the bottom-line message I want to ...

There are so many Social Security-bashing screeds floating around on the internet. Some are full of a few ...