Social Security
The top Social Security news, strategies and planning insights advisors can use to best serve clients.
Expect a Baby Bust in 2021
By Ginger SzalaThe Brookings Institution sees 300,000 fewer births next year.
December 22, 2020
Test Your Knowledge: The Social Security Trust FundsTake our quiz on how Social Security is funded and how a shortfall could affect your clients.
December 22, 2020
Social Security, Medicare Face Urgent Challenges in 2021COVID has deepened funding shortfalls, sapped political will to fix them and created a problem for workers born in 1960.
December 22, 2020
Social Security Benefits for Expats: 10 Questions AnsweredAmericans living or working abroad, and their advisors, should read up on totalization agreements and other issues impacting their payments.
December 10, 2020
Could Bill Ackman's 'Birthright' Plan Make Every Retiree a Millionaire?The hedge fund manager proposed funding retirement by giving every American money at birth. Not so fast, retirement experts say.
December 10, 2020
Social Security Leadership Gets Thumbs-Down From StaffSurveys of both Social Security Administration rank-and-file and administrative law judges showed overwhelming disapproval.
December 08, 2020
Social Security Advocates Push for 3% COLA in 2021An emergency measure to increase the 2021 COLA from 1.3% could be included in a spending bill that must pass this month.
December 07, 2020
Social Security in 2021: States With the Biggest, Smallest ChecksWhat will the impact of next year's cost-of-living adjustment of 1.3% look like by state? Here are 10 states and their expected averages.