And the agency isn't helping

Get the most out of your Social Security benefits.

All other things being equal, women should have to wait longer for their retirement benefits.

Receiving a retroactive benefits payment carries a cost.

Q. I'll be 62 in December of 2016, and my husband will be 66 in September of 2016. We thought we had our Social Security claiming strategy all locked up until Congress changed the law...

University of Chicago professor Harold Pollack explains the financial cheat-sheet that went viral.