Your Social Security benefits are primarily based on your lifetime earnings. To qualify for retirement benefits, you must ...

(This Bankrate calculator can help estimate your Social Security check.) In order to qualify for Social Security benefits, you need to accrue 40 credits, if you were born after Jan. 2, 1929.

The third round of May’s Social Security payments, worth up to $5,108 for the highest-income earners who retire at age 70, ...

working beyond 35 years will allow future retirees to remove their lower-earning years from the SSA's calculation and beef up ...

The SSA takes your 35 highest-earning years and averages them (adjusted for inflation) to determine your benefit. If, via this calculation, you have paid the taxable maximum over this period ...

Errors in your Social Security earnings record can lead to getting lower benefits than what you're owed. Here's how to check and correct your records.

Social Security overpayments often follow changes in income, marital status or disability status.

The 2025 COLA increase of 2.5% for Social Security recipients was one of the lowest since 2021, and so far, signs are ...

Ryan Bisher Ryan & Simons explains that it can be difficult to determine eligibility for various Social Security benefits, to ...