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The average monthly Social Security benefit will increase from $1,927 to $1,976 in 2025 after the cost-of-living adjustment this year, according to the Social Security Administration.
Social Security is considered a mandatory program, and it's not funded by the shorter-term continuing-resolution bills that have kept the government operating in recent years amid Washington ...
Closures, Social Security checks, furloughs: What a government shutdown might mean By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Congress has until midnight Friday to come up with a way to fund the government or federal agencies will shut down, meaning hundreds of thousands of federal employees could be sent home — or stay on the job without pay — just ...
A view of the U.S. Capitol dome, as Congress faces a deadline on Friday, March 22, to extend funding or face a partial shutdown of the federal government, in Washington, D.C. on March 21, 2024 ...
With just days to go until a government shutdown, leaders agreed to extend funding until December. ... USA TODAY. Updated September 23, 2024 at 1:46 PM. WASHINGTON – Congress has reached a deal ...
In the United States, government shutdowns occur when funding legislation required to finance the federal government is not enacted before the next fiscal year begins. In a shutdown, the federal government curtails agency activities and services, ceases non-essential operations, furloughs non-essential workers, and retains only essential employees in departments that protect human life or ...
With a partial government shutdown beginning on Sunday looking ever more likely amid an ongoing standoff in Congress, the U.S. Labor Department has advised that all economic data gathering and ...
The money for Social Security benefits is not part of the federal government's budget but is a separate fund. Will Medicare benefits still be paid in a government shutdown?