Social Security News

U.S. households finance Lifeline through a monthly fee on their phone bills of roughly $2.70. The Universal Service Charge backs several federal communications programs, including Lifeline, a subsidy to make phone service accessible to the poor.

Each week, Patch combs through the more shocking, surprising and often absurd allegedly criminal acts and police-related incidents that unfold around the region.

"Semantic infiltration" is a term coined by the foreign policy expert Fred Ikle and popularized by the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

During Robert Muldoon's time in power in the 1970s and early 1980s Budget statements were all about micro issues.

According to a Pew Charitable Trusts study released Thursday, baby boomers and Generation Xers are increasingly unlikely to be able to afford the costs of retirement, making critical the need for a strong Social Security program to bridge this income gap.

Having a credit check ran on you is not the same as having a background check conducted on you.

A local healthcare company is now trying to contact 10,000 job applicants whose private information was exposed in a major security breach.

More than five months after the Sandy Hook shootings, the town clerk's office is steadfast in its refusal to release death certificates for those slain Dec.

Due to the extreme penalties behind missing jury duty, scammers are preying on victims' fear of legal action by pretending to be "jury duty coordinators" questioning consumers about recent jury duty summons.

President Barack Obama's budget would trim projected federal deficits by $1.1 trillion over the coming decade, using nearly $6 in higher revenues for every $1 in reduced spending to achieve it, Congress' nonpartisan budget analyst said Friday.

Copies of President Barack Obama's proposed federal budget plan for fiscal year 2014 are prepared for delivery at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington.

Today almost half of those filing for Social Security benefits do so at age 62, the earliest age to which the law makes eligible.

Getting a home loan is hard enough, but first-time buyers who want a jumbo mortgage have even higher hurdles to clear.

Some people believe the DA will reinstate Apartheid should they win the national elections.

MANILA The Department of Labor and Employment clarified on Thursday that Taiwan has not implemented a freeze order on the hiring of Filipinos, but is only seeking additional documentary requirements to the visa application of incoming workers.

IF A DOOR OPENS: A JOURNEY WITH FRANCES PERKINS, a play by Charlotte Keefe, directed by Bruce McIntosh, presented by Metta Theatre in association with Teatro Paraguas will run tonight & Saturday May 17, 18 at 7:30 PM and Sunday May 19 at 2PM at Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, Santa Fe.Admission is $15 general admission, $12 seniors and students.

Boomers lost a significant chunk of their retirement nest eggs in the recession, but it was members of Generation X who were really hit the hardest, according to a report released Thursday.

Jason Richwine's Heritage Foundation study on the costs of immigration reform had far-reaching problems, a new study finds.

I typically make about $55,000 a year. I will turn 66 years old in September 2014 and will retire the following year.

In response to an inquiry made by Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, one of the Senate sponsors of immigration reform, the chief actuary for SSA, Stephen C. Gross, in a letter dated May 8, 2013, discussed the impact of reform on Social Security revenues.