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The SSA’s July 3 email announced that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (signed into law by President Donald Trump on July 4) would essentially eliminate federal income taxes on Social Security benefits ...
When Americans can no longer trust the information it receives from the Social Security Administration, there's a problem.
The Social Security Administration circulated an imprecise email about the provisions in the new law. Here’s what it actually does.
In just eight years, unless Congress steps in, every retiree will face an automatic 23% across-the-board benefit cut.
The email has raised questions about partisanship at the SSA, which distributes benefits to tens of millions of Americans every month.
One Reddit user is in this situation. The poster has indicated being on track with her husband to retire at the very young ...
The Social Security Administration says most won’t pay federal income taxes on their benefits. But Congress didn’t directly ...
Donald Trump’s Social Security Administration sent out an email praising his “Big Beautiful Bill” with misinformation about what the new law does.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935. The law set a January 1937 deadline to start collecting payroll taxes from the first 26 million workers covered by ...
At the start of 2025, then-President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law, paving the way for 2.8 million Americans to receive an increase in their monthly Social Security… ...
The Brief Earlier this year, the Social Security Fairness Act boosted Social Security payments for nearly 3 million people. SSA says benefits have been expanded for about 91% of those eligible.