Social Security

Social Security&#39s financial outlook worsened slightly last year, but the program&#39s financial difficulties pale...

Medicare officials have issued guidelines allowing homebound beneficiaries to leave their homes for special occasions--such as family reunions, graduations or funerals--without losing their home health care benefits. More . . .

June 20, 2002--A new report concludes that the Bush administration's plan to create personal investment accounts within Social Security would lead to deep cuts in benefits. More . . .

The Social Security Administration is so backlogged that disabled claimants must often wait two to three years for their benefit checks to start rolling in, a Senate committee has been told. More . . .

Starting January 1, 2005, Medicare will provide coverage for three new preventive benefits under Part B. The new be...

The Court of Appeals of Iowa has ruled that a trust that terminates if it causes a Medicaid applicant to be denied benefits should still be counted among the applicant's assets. More . . .

The Bush administration wants to partially privatize Social Security by allowing workers to invest part of their pay...

There is much opposition to the Bush administration&#39s proposal to partially privatize Social Security, according ...

The Social Security Administration's Inspector General has concluded that many banks are violating federal law by garnishing accounts that receive electronic deposits of Social...