Social Security News

Ki Gulbranson owns a logo apparel shop, deals in jewelry on the side and referees youth soccer games.

In a rough economy, Georgia's leaders are looking to collect every nickel owed to the state.

We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped and supported our mini "Relay for Life" on Jan.

Obama's 2013 budget, set for release Monday, is the official start to an election-year budget battle with Republicans.

Social Security is a social insurance program designed to pay benefits to the elderly and disabled.

President Barack Obama is pressuring Congress to extend a payroll tax cut for the rest of the year as another deadline nears for Congress to act or see taxes go up for millions of working people.

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and Deputy Prime Minister Katsuya Okada both promoted the government's social security and tax reform plan Saturday, featuring a sales tax hike, in the hope that it would be enacted in the current Diet session through June.

Back in 1990, the Supreme Court of the United States was confronted with quite a sticky situation: Alfred Smith and Galen Black had been fired from their jobs with a private drug rehabilitation organization because they ingested peyote for sacramental purposes at a ceremony of the Native American Church, of which both are members.

TYLER, Texas A 51-year-old Bullard, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.

Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney told a conservative audience in Washington Friday he would make sweeping changes to Medicare and Social Security.

A former aide to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords , who was himself wounded in last year's mass shooting in Arizona, announced this afternoon that he is running in the special election to replace the congresswoman.

Lawmakers led by congressional Republicans are pushing a proposal that would halt what amounts to an IRS-administered entitlement that provides "free-funds" to low-income illegal immigrant filers who take advantage of a child tax credit to receive government payments that average about $1,800. The proposal would require people filing tax returns to ... (more)

A Chicago woman is scheduled to appear in federal court tomorrow afternoon, accused of misusing identities to get more than $400,000 in bogus tax refunds and Social Security benefits, federal authorities announced today.

Federal prosecutors say Leday embezzled nearly $42,000 after claiming in 2002 that an injury prevented him from working.

Let's think about the kind of mess we're in. Federal 2010 Medicare and Medicaid expenditures totaled $800 billion.

House-Senate negotiations on extending jobless benefits and a two percentage point cut in the payroll tax remained stalled Thursday, despite a proposal in which Democrats urged a modest six-week cut in the maximum time unemployed workers can receive jobless benefits.

U.S. stocks rose early Thursday after Greece announced an agreement to cut costs and keep from defaulting on its debt next month, an event that could have shocked the world financial system.

Social Security recipients sued to opt out of Medicare, saying the benefit limits their private insurance coverage.

Tax season is in full swing and as Westchester residents gather their receipts, W-2s and 1040EZ's, so gathers another crop of crooks looking to take personal information and use whatever credit is available for their personal gain.

In this July 8, 2011 file photo, House Social Security subcommittee Chairman Rep.