In January, the average retired employee brought home a $1,976 check from Social Security. While the average monthly payment may not seem like a lot, Social Security helped lift 22.7 million people out of poverty in 2022, including 16.5 million adults ages 65 and older. Despite the undeniable important role Social security This pioneering retirement…
January 2 – Washington, D.C. – The Senate last week passed legislation introduced by bipartisan Sen. Sherrod Brown, which would ensure public employees and their families receive full Social Security benefits after two previous bills reduced them. Brown’s bill, the Social Security Fairness Act, would repeal the windfall removal and government pension offset provision from…
Written by Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress early on Saturday approved a measure to boost Social Security retirement payments for some retirees who receive public pensions – such as former police and firefighters – which critics warned would further weaken the program’s finances. The Senate on a bipartisan vote of 76-20 shortly…
As the presidential candidates head into the most heated phase of the election year so far, former President Donald Trump has made a distinctive shift in tone on his Truth Social profile, lashing out in increasingly vulgar, misogynistic and vindictive posts. Just this week, he’s reposted messages calling for his political opponents to be jailed,…
An estimated 2.9 billion records, including names, addresses and Social Security numbers may be affected after National Public Data confirmed it suffered after a massive data breach involving the personal information of millions of Americans. Still, despite privacy concerns, Americans shouldn’t offer to submit their Social Security numbers to websites just because they claim they…
Donald Trump is bigly mad, and he’s not hiding it. A day before the Democratic National Convention, with Vice President Kamala Harris swinging through one of the key battleground states where she recently turned the polling tables on him, Trump embarked on a Truth Social posting spree. The former president posted or reposted his own…
