Social Security News

      From the Washington Post: A new report projects that the Social Security Trust Fund might run out of money within six years under a Do...

    Republicans in the House of Representatives have put forth their plan for what that they hope to extort from the President by threatenin...

      From the Associated Press : Most U.S. adults are opposed to proposals that would cut into Medicare or Social Security benefits, and a...

  From the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare

      Social Security has published its complete Cost Of Living Adjustments . There's more than individual COLA adjustments to be comput...

      From Roll Call : If Republicans take one or both chambers of Congress in November, don’t be surprised if shoring up Social Security’s...

      From GOBankingRates.com : Employers and self-employed individuals who chose to defer paying part of their 2020 Social Security tax obl...

     From CBS Chicago : Imagine this – you’re unemployed and you get a letter saying you owe thousands of dollars in back Social Security ta...

      From FEDweek : As was widely expected, an issue has arisen regarding repayment of Social Security taxes that were not withheld from m...

      From Stars and Stripes : Members of the armed forces and federal employees have 12 months instead of four to pay back Social Security...

      From Jennifer Rubin writing for the Washington Post : You might not have noticed it during his speech in Pittsburgh on Monday, but D...

      From Syracuse.com: Joe Huppman didn’t hesitate to answer the urgent plea last month for retired doctors and nurses to help New Yor...

     From Michael Hiltzik writing for the L.A. Times: It’s natural for decision-makers grappling with a new crisis to dust off ideas t...

     John Larson, the Chair of the House Social Security Subcommittee, has been pushing the Social Security 2100 Act. Now comes word that ...

     The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College has a new study out on the problem of FICA tax avoidance by independent contrac...

     Some excerpts from a piece by Paula Span in the Health Section of the New York Times : We’ve long heard warnings that the Social...

     The FICA tax that supports the Social Security trust funds is not insignificant. It's 15.3% if you're self-employed. Many s...

     From a Social Security press release : In October of each year, the Social Security Administration announces adjustments that take...

     The tax bill that Republicans hope to pass would potentially have effects upon Social Security. It would trigger budget rules that...

     From the Fiscal Times: A new report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration released this week highlights the prob...