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If you start to get benefits at age 62, your monthly benefit is cut by 30% to $1,400 to account for the longer time you’ll receive benefits. This decrease is usually permanent. If you choose to ...
If you have an account online with the Social Security Administration, you might need to soon update your credentials. Those who created an account before Sept. 18, 2021, will soon be required to ...
On the sign-in page, you’ll be asked to sign into Social Security via Login.gov, ID.me, or, if you created your account before Sept. 18, 2021, using your username and password. The last option ...
The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) [2] is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability and survivor benefits. To qualify for most of these benefits, most workers pay Social Security taxes on their earnings; the claimant ...
The Social Security Administration collects payroll taxes and uses the money collected to pay Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance benefits by way of trust funds. When the program runs a surplus, the excess funds increase the value of the Trust Fund. As of 2021, the Trust Fund contained (or alternatively, was owed) $2.908 trillion. [4]
The Social Security Act was enacted August 14, 1935 (89 years ago). The Act was drafted during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term by the President's Committee on Economic Security, under Frances Perkins, and passed by Congress as part of the New Deal.
A Social Security spousal rule that has been around for decades officially ends this year for everyone except those who turned 70 on Jan. 1, 2024. The rule allows recipients to switch between their...
SSA impersonation scam. An SSA impersonation scam, or SSA scam, is a class of telecommunications scam targeting citizens of the United States by impersonating Social Security Administration employees. SSA scams are typically initiated through pre-recorded messages, or robocalls, that use social engineering to make victims panic and ensure they ...