Social Security

Social benefits are now expected to be a little lower than predictions from a month ago suggested, as inflation fell in July.

The Social Security cost of living increase could hit double digits for the first time in over 40 years, but it all depends on whether inflation keeps rising.

One advocacy group recently estimated that the 2023 cost-of-living adjustment could be 10.5 percent in 2023.

Gallup's annual Economy and Personal Finance survey in April found the average reported age of retirement is now 61—up from 57 in 1991.

When the GOP senator claimed John Roberts was using a "Democrat talking point," the Fox News host pushed back, saying, "No, no, it's in the plan."

Despite repeated warnings from Social Security's trustees that the program is facing a financial shortfall, lawmakers have reached a bipartisan consensus to kick the can down the road.

Most Medicare enrollees will see the premium taken from their Social Security checks, possibly taking a lot of seniors' 5.8 percent cost-of-living increase.

Officers used a search warrant to enter her home and find the body after other relatives reported their concerns.

A seniors organization's petition calls for a one-time payment of $1,400 to about 65 million people.

Nancy Kay Shedleski, 69, collected over $120,000 in Social Security retirement benefits between August 2015 and December 2019, according to a complaint.

"Based on state pay records and other data, more than 100,000 Social Security numbers were vulnerable," the St. Louis-Dispatch reported.

The adjustment is the largest in 39 years and will give the average retiree a 5.9 percent overall raise in benefits next year.

"These individuals are the victims of fraud, not the perpetrators, and it's time for their uncertainty and anxiety to end," a Kentucky representative said.

Senator Joe Manchin has said the social spending bill would not be passed if the Hyde Amendment is excluded.

"The finances of both programs have been significantly affected by the pandemic and the recession of 2020," trustees of the two programs said.

Andrew Saul reportedly said that he considers himself "the term-protected Commissioner of Social Security" and will refuse to leave after being fired by Biden.

"You shouldn't record someone at their lowest," one commenter said after seeing the video on TikTok of the cashier calling out the elderly man.

The alleged debt dates back to 1973, when Richard Nixon was president and Rick Wosmanski was a 19-year-old student.

The 47-year-old man told the authorities in Paris that his mother had died of cancer at home in 2014.

"A nonresident alien in 2021 isn't eligible for the payment," according to the IRS. Non-American citizens living overseas who received the checks erroneously should void them and send them back, or risk a warning in 2022.

People across the country have learned that once the IRS thinks your dead, it's not easy to prove you're alive.

Federal benefit recipients who don't receive their third stimulus funds electronically may be receiving a paper check instead.

The IRS is not planning to issue third stimulus payments as prepaid debit cards to federal benefit recipients, according to the SSA.

The majority of stimulus payments for federal benefit recipients will be issued as direct deposits and to existing Direct Express card accounts, the IRS said.

The majority of these payments will be issued as direct deposits or to existing Direct Express card accounts, the IRS said Tuesday.

The IRS expects to begin issuing payments this weekend to benefit recipients who don't usually file a tax return.

Federal beneficiaries who haven't received a stimulus check yet could receive their $1,400 payment on April 7.

It has yet to be confirmed how many stimulus payments for federal benefit recipients may have been sent out by the IRS.

The required payment files were sent by the Social Security Administration to the IRS last Thursday, two weeks after the COVID-19 relief bill was signed into law.

A dispute over paperwork between the IRS and the Social Security Administration has delayed the payments.