When someone is out of work but has plenty of savings, they may be eligible to apply for public assistance programs. But is ...

WASHINGTON —Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the week ending Dec. 24.

The U.S. Senate approved a broadly bipartisan bill in the final days of 2024 that would increase Social Security benefits for millions of Americans with pensions by ...

Social Security's 2025 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) bumped the average benefit from $1,927 per month to $1,976 per month.

Social Security began as a safeguard “against the hazards and vicissitudes of life,” said former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who on August 14, 1935, signed the ‘Social Security Act’ into law ...

The high court will hear TikTok's case in January, just before the ban is slated to go into effect. The US Supreme Court will take up TikTok's challenge of a law that if allowed to go into effect ...

Congress has passed a bill that would allow public workers who receive a pension to also collect social security benefits.

The Social Security Fairness Act, co-sponsored by Rep. Cuellar, aims to restore full benefits to public servants by repealing ...

Legislation now headed to President Biden's desk comes with the Social Security Administration staffed at a 50-year low.

The bill repealing the controversial Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset awaits President Biden's ...

Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week. Along with this week’s roll call votes, the House ...

The U.S. Senate recently voted to proceed with the Social Security Fairness Act, a bipartisan bill that could expand Social ...