Social Security News

Your doctor's name, your past illnesses and medical history, even the kind of medicine you take - these are the types of personal details for sale in a multimillion dollar underground market.

A Swedish district court has ruled that Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg can be extradited to Denmark to face charges that he was involved in one of the country's largest hacking attacks.

Since the George W. Bush Administration, Social Security reform has been atop the federal government's list of top policy challenges.

Some of the dead whose Social Security numbers were used to receive public benefits had been deceased for decades, Auditor Suzanne Bump told a House oversight committee Monday.

For the third time in as many years, voters are being called to the polls next Tuesday to choose a new U.S. senator, with Republican and former Navy SEAL turned private equity investor Gabriel E. Gomez facing veteran Democrat U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey.

The life story of Chen Shuizong, who killed 47 people when he set himself on fire, has attracted sympathy from Chinese similarly frustrated with a capricious system.

Georgia officials said they plan to review a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down an Arizona voter-registration law requiring proof of citizenship to determine what effect it may have on a similar state law.

If liberals succeed in blocking any serious entitlement reform during the Obama presidency, as seems increasingly likely, they will have handed conservatives a gift.

A rush of 7-Eleven raids in New York and Virginia lead to multiple arrests and store seizures over immigration issues.

While most people dream of the day they can retire, many college professors plan to put it off or work until their final years.

As a child, Jorge Tume used to sit and do homework as his parents cleaned the desks and floors of a concrete company in Miami.

Nine owners and managers of 7-Eleven stores on Long Island and in Virginia were charged on Monday in a scheme to exploit immigrants from Pakistan, including some business-owners who used Social Security numbers of children and dead people on the workers' paystubs.

Barbara Adams, 70, keeps getting one of those annoying robocalls that she just knows has to be a scam.

The Ball State University Board of Trustees recently accepted the resignation of Peter Blume, director of the David Owsley Museum of Art, where both attendance and space have increased during his 10 years at the helm.

Those in the midst of a divorce may not know that some of their Social Security benefits could go to their ex-spouse if they have been married for 10 years.

It seems as if the same battle is being fought in every aspect of American society.

I am deeply saddened to see the Beacon Falls town budget fail at referendum. The town budget contained a very minor 0.1 mill increase.

New research shows that investment savings and financial security, rather than age, now determine when near-retirees feel ready to retire.

The union's board, meeting on Maui, agreed unanimously Friday to support Schatz after interviewing both Democrats.

Economists have long known that disability filings go up during recessions, however, they aren't sure why .