Along with private pensions and savings/investments, Social Security benefits are one leg of the three-legged stool of retirement planning. However, according to a 2020 study conducted by the National ...

There's a lot riding on your Social Security filing decision. If you claim benefits ahead of full retirement age, which is 67 ...

I've been saving up questions I've gotten from readers about benefits for spouses. It's an issue I've covered a hundred times in this column. But the questions still keep coming. So, here is column No ...

Each week, in our Ask the Editor series, Joy Taylor, The Kiplinger Tax Letter editor, answers questions on topics submitted by readers. This week she's looking at six questions on the taxation of ...

People often think of "reaching retirement" as one set date—and at least from an employment standpoint, that's largely true. Most people only retire from the workforce once. But many of the ...