Social Security News

The director of the main branch of the Social Security Foundation in the Cretan port of Rethymno has been arrested for taking bribes, breach of faith and violation of duty, reports said on Friday.

Falling just behind the nation's economy and Social Security, healthcare was listed as the most important issue affecting America, according to a poll of 1,000 "general population respondents" conducted by the international market research firm YouGov in conjunction with The Economist .

Lithuania will hold the rotating EU presidency of the Council in the second half of 2013 .

Dionne and Calvin McDonald Jr. of Albuquerque, N.M., have never lived in Mississippi, but the state put a hold on their $4,000 tax refund check for alleged back child support payments.

Recent congressional hearings, changes in leadership and the impact on resources resulting from budget cuts mark a low point for the IRS.

The Social Security Administration on Thursday announced the most popular baby names in Kentucky for 2012.

In a heartbeat, my Social Security check would have been gone. Mailed to someone else who had intercepted my account.

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

Last year, 2012, marked the first year since 2009 that U.S. retirees saw a cost-of-living adjustment of +3.6 percent in their Social Security benefits.

A Lisbon man who used his own child's Social Security number in a scheme to illegally receive welfare benefits has been sentenced to four years in prison.

Adopting the chained CPI in Social Security to more accurately account for changes in the cost of living is a small first step toward fixing a broken program that is currently accelerating its own demise by paying excess benefits.

While most people realize that their personal creditworthiness is tracked on something called a credit report, few know much about it or their scoring system.

Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke is over austerity and, in typical Fed speak, did his best to convince the members of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress that just maybe their efforts would be better focused on creating jobs than crafting for more deficit-cutting policies.

The Kaiser Family Foundation released a report Monday showing that more seniors than previously thought are living in poverty.

Here is just one example: Among the many outrages that congressional Democrats have assigned to the sequester is that it could reduce the available slots in the Head Start program by as many as 70,000 children.

A banner attacking workfare in In the London May Day march last year. Photograph: Peter Marshall/ Peter Marshall/Demotix/Corbis So, millions of British workers are anxious and frustrated.

This account is a personalized online account that people can use beginning in their working years and continuing throughout the time they receive Social Security benefits.

The federal government no longer has a statue of limitations when it comes to collecting on debt that is owed to them.

Jason Richwine, who resigned from the Heritage Foundation May 10, was the co-author of a study that claimed granting legal status to the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants here would cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion over their lifetimes.

An Armwood High School student is accused of stealing the identities of dozens of people in order to collect debit cards in their names.