Last year, program trustees projected that, beginning in 2033, Social Security’s trust fund will be depleted and insufficient to pay retirement benefits. Medicare faces an even more immediate crisis, ...

For nearly 100 years, the United States has maintained one of the world’s more successful models of social insurance, protecting Americans from the death of a spouse or parent, disability and old age ...

Social Security is commonly known for providing an income for people in retirement. However, the Social Security Administration (SSA) does much more than provide social retirement plans. The SSA also ...

Reimagining Our Social Contract: The Safety Net Is Social Insurance for All Americans When four in five Americans will experience at least one year of poverty, near poverty, unemployment, or the ...

1. Franklin D. Roosevelt On August 9, 1935, The Social Security Bill (H.R. 7260) was sent to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for his signature. An important part of the New Deal, it was the first ...

Rae Hartley Beck first started writing about personal finance in 2011 with a regular column in her college newspaper as a staff writer. Since then she has become a leader in the Financial Independence ...

Federal and state policymakers increasingly are interested in creating a public social insurance program for long-term care in the US. Even some Democratic presidential hopefuls have raised the issue, ...

The Department of Social Insurance has launched a new online application service aimed at improving efficiency and reducing red tape. From February 24 a range of applications must be submitted through ...

Social Security provides crucial financial support to Americans, protecting them from risks associated with disability, death of a spouse, and outliving savings. In Wisconsin alone, Social Security ...