Browsing: Social Security
Congress has long dodged any Social Security reforms that would cut benefits, hike taxes, or do both. But those days…
Social Security is hurtling toward a fiscal cliff that, if left unaddressed, will force an automatic 22% benefit cut for…
Lawmakers have long known that Social Security faces a day of reckoning but have dodged any reforms that would cut…
A rapid series of administrative, staffing and policy changes the Social Security Administration underwent early on in the second Trump…
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz suggested the so-called Trump accounts for American children are part of an effort to revamp Social…
Martha Shedden is president and co-founder of the National Association of Registered Social Security Analysts, Ltd. She is certified as…
Amid the increasingly damning reports on the rising threat of America’s runaway deficits and debt, the looming disaster that could…
Social Security is six years from insolvency. That’s not a projection buried in an actuarial footnote—it’s the opening finding of…
The U.S. has never been more financially exposed heading into a potential economic crisis. With the national debt now equal…
Seventy-year-old baby boomer Martha Shedden spent more than three decades building a successful career as a civil engineer. But 15…