Social Security
The top Social Security news, strategies and planning insights advisors can use to best serve clients.
The future of Social Security
By Van MuellerCan your clients afford to lose 25 percent of their income?
April 27, 2012
When Should Clients Start Claiming Social Security Benefits?Claim right away or wait? Your advice to clients can make all the difference. Heres what to consider.
April 25, 2012
Michael Norton: How to Buy Happiness (TED)Money can buy happiness as long as the purchase isn't for yourself.
April 24, 2012
Social Security Assets ‘Adequate’ for 10 Years, Deficits Begin 2021Disability trust fund will run dry in 2016, OASI in 2035, according to the 2012 Social Security Trustees report.
April 23, 2012
Poor Economy Worsens Social Security's FinancesHigh energy prices and an economy that has been slow to rebound are worsening Social Security's finances, shortening the life of the trust funds that support the program by three years, the government said Monday.
April 19, 2012
Social Security Trustees Will Report Large, Growing Surplus: Advocacy GroupThe Strengthen Social Security Campaign predicts that the annual Social Security Trustees Report due April 23 will say eligible Americans can count on benefits "for the next century and well beyond."
April 17, 2012
News Analysis: Has the Crisis Doomed the U.S. to Decline?Kwasi Kwarteng, a member of the British Parliament, makes the case that the financial crisis and Americas debt problem signal the end of American empire.
April 13, 2012
Donors Beware: Social Security Numbers Exposed by CharitiesNearly a fifth of nonprofits between 2001 and 2006 published social security numbers on their tax returns, which are open to the public.