A new bill in Congress, the SWIFT Act, aims to increase Social Security survivor benefits for widows, widowers, and surviving ...

Benefit caps, legal restrictions and claiming requirements for Social Security would change under the Surviving Widow(er) Income Fair Treatment, or SWIFT, Act, announced Wednesday by Sen. Kirsten ...

Today’s column involves a husband and wife, both of whom were getting Social Security benefits — and the husband dies.

Survivor benefits are currently paid to around 5.8 million Americans nationwide, with nearly 4 million of those being widowers.

Many widows and widowers may miss important Social Security rules that impact their income. Discover key mistakes to avoid ...

A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate aims to increase Social Security benefits for widowed Americans as well as people who are divorced yet still entitled to benefits from their deceased ...

For most retirees, Social Security is their most reliable income source. After all, there’s a guaranteed amount of money coming each month once you claim Social Security, and those benefits increase ...

Many people don't realize a deceased ex's Social Security can raise their check. Learn the 10-year rule, remarriage limits, ...

Over the past 17 years that I have been doing this column, I have written about 50 columns dealing with the Social Security offsets that impact some state and local government employees who work at ...

Social Security rules have some changes in store for 2026, such as tax rules and cost-of-living adjustments. Here's what ...

Every couple of years, I like to cover a topic that confuses almost everyone. And that confusion comes at a time when they ...