What happens to Social Security and Medicare? Will post offices, airports and DMVs stay open? We answer top questions.

While the SSA hasn’t publicly confirmed how many beneficiaries are affected, records obtained via a Freedom of Information ...

The failure to reach a budget agreement will shut down much of the federal government on Wednesday, but that won’t stop the ...

More than 70 million Americans rely on Social Security benefits and are vulnerable to scams threatening their monthly ...

There's no right time to begin collecting Social Security benefits, but the age at which you begin receiving benefits will affect how much retirement income you have, so you should weigh the ...

Is the government shutdown? What we know about when 2025 government shutdown is taking place, including what will be open and closed.

Social Security checks are going paperless starting Tuesday, Sept. 30. Here's why it's happening and how to go from paper to ...

About 6.5 million Californians benefit from Social Security. Democrats and Republicans have yet to make a deal to avoid the shut down.

Will Social Security checks go out? Are national parks open? Here's what to know when the federal government partially shuts ...

In spring 2025, SSA introduced an anti-fraud algorithm that was later abandoned. According to a June 2025 letter by Warren to Commissioner Frank Bisignano, the system flagged only two potentially ...

The 2025 Trustees Report says Social Security can pay full benefits only until 2034—after that, without Congress acting, ...