The Social Security Administration (SSA) has quietly changed a rule regarding widows and widowers as well as divorcees. Specifically, those whose spouses worked in the public sector and who didn’t always pay Social Security taxes.

Thousands have been short-changed of their Social Security payments as a result of blunders by the Social Security Administration

A new bill in Congress, titled the Social Security Caregiver Credit Act of 2026, would change how Social Security benefits are calculated, meaning millions of parents could end up with larger payments when they retire.

Social Security benefits can be taxed at the federal level depending on your total income in retirement. Whether you owe taxes on your benefits, and how much, depends on very old data. The IRS uses income thresholds set decades ago that have never been adjusted for inflation.

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The exposure is linked to a CMS provider directory data intended to help improve accuracy of insurer networks.

President Donald Trump said on Friday that 300,000 illegal immigrants were kicked off Social Security and another 100,000 off Medicare by his administration. Trump disclosed the numbers during an event at The Villages,

Seniors who get most or all of their retirement income from Social Security tend to rely on the program’s annual cost-of-living adjustments, or COLAs, in a really big way. Without those COLAs, seniors would be pretty much guaranteed to lose out on buying power from year to year.