This means your earliest, lowest-paid working years often don’t affect your final benefit calculation — as long as you ...

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See February 2026 Social Security and SSI payment dates, why SSI checks arrived early, COLA changes, taxes, and what to do if ...

Social Security payments for February follow a normal schedule. What to know if the federal government shuts down.

After shedding thousands of employees, SSA is reassigning workers amid fears the moves will cause backlogs to grow.

Your Social Security benefits may be safe from creditors, but not from the federal government.

Enrolling in Medicare will go a lot smoother if you establish a my Social Security account and take other preparations ahead ...

More than 100 million Americans have created personal My Social Security accounts, the SSA has announced.

The Social Security Administration announced February 9, 2026, that more than 100 million Americans have created personal my Social Security accounts, a key milestone in the agency’s shift to ...

Every American’s personal data is at risk of fraud after DOGE’s alleged mismanagement, Social Security’s former chief data ...

A GAO report finds that the risk of losing of more SSA employees due to a lack of telework would deepen skills gaps and worsen service delays.

From changes to the Social Security Administration workflow to what happens to benefits during a government shutdown, here is what you need to know about Social Security for February.