Social Security News

Hurricanes and severe storms are a part of summertime in Northern Virginia and experts are predicting a number of Hurricane experts predict that this year's hurricane season could yield four major hurricanes this year in the Atlantic in the 2013 season.

Few American business leaders are as connected to the concepts of saving and long-term investing as John C. Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group.

A big brother you can trust to keep you safe, give you a hand and do right by you? Or a big brother who snoops, lies and bullies you in all corners of your life? There's a common thread running through a series of controversies dogging President Barack Obama: the federal government, and conflicting interpretations of what it is.

New York's top financial regulator has sent subpoenas to several firms seeking information on investments that guarantee steady payments to hundreds of thousands of retirees and other consumers, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday, citing people familiar with the inquiry.

It's been a few years since Lil Martin had her personal and business accounts raided in two separate identity theft cases, and she does things much differently now.

Women live longer, make less money, and take care of loved ones more often than men.

Seaside Heights mayor Bill Akers walks a reporter around the 400 block of Hiering Avenue.

That famous quote from Benjamin Franklin came to mind as I read a paper by three researchers who've made important contributions to the study of retirement finance: James M. Poterba at MIT, Steven F. Venti at Dartmouth and David A. Wise at Harvard.

U.S. households finance Lifeline through a monthly fee on their phone bills of roughly $2.70. The Universal Service Charge backs several federal communications programs, including Lifeline, a subsidy to make phone service accessible to the poor.

Each week, Patch combs through the more shocking, surprising and often absurd allegedly criminal acts and police-related incidents that unfold around the region.

"Semantic infiltration" is a term coined by the foreign policy expert Fred Ikle and popularized by the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

During Robert Muldoon's time in power in the 1970s and early 1980s Budget statements were all about micro issues.

According to a Pew Charitable Trusts study released Thursday, baby boomers and Generation Xers are increasingly unlikely to be able to afford the costs of retirement, making critical the need for a strong Social Security program to bridge this income gap.

Having a credit check ran on you is not the same as having a background check conducted on you.

A local healthcare company is now trying to contact 10,000 job applicants whose private information was exposed in a major security breach.

More than five months after the Sandy Hook shootings, the town clerk's office is steadfast in its refusal to release death certificates for those slain Dec.

Due to the extreme penalties behind missing jury duty, scammers are preying on victims' fear of legal action by pretending to be "jury duty coordinators" questioning consumers about recent jury duty summons.

President Barack Obama's budget would trim projected federal deficits by $1.1 trillion over the coming decade, using nearly $6 in higher revenues for every $1 in reduced spending to achieve it, Congress' nonpartisan budget analyst said Friday.

Copies of President Barack Obama's proposed federal budget plan for fiscal year 2014 are prepared for delivery at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington.

Today almost half of those filing for Social Security benefits do so at age 62, the earliest age to which the law makes eligible.