The February report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) about the inevitable insolvency of Social Security reveals a Ponzi scheme that is going to crater sooner than expected. For 2013, the CBO says that beneficiaries will receive $816 billion ...

Anniston Star - Area residents who get government help to buy food can now pay for a local farm to deliver fresh fruits and veggies to their doorsteps. In late December Forever Sunrise Organics in Piedmont began accepting cards issued to clients of t ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Social Security recipients shouldn't expect a big increase in monthly benefits come January. Preliminary figures show the annual benefit boost will be between 1 percent and 2 percent, which would be among the lowest since automatic ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite Social Security's long-term problems, the massive retirement and disability program could be preserved for generations to come with modest but politically difficult changes to benefits or taxes, or a combination of both. Som ...

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) - If there's any place where tea partiers in Congress might hesitate to call for cuts in Social Security and Medicare to shrink the federal debt, Florida's retirement havens should top the list. Even here, however, Republican ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Millions of retired and disabled people in the United States had better brace for another year with no increase in Social Security payments. The government is projecting a slight cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security benefit ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - In the midst of the budget crisis, an old debate has broken out with new force: Should Social Security be seen as part of the deficit that Washington needs to rein in? The White House is balking at calls to tackle Social Security's ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sick and getting sicker, Social Security will run at a deficit this year and keep on running in the red until its trust funds are drained by about 2037, congressional budget experts said Wednesday in bleaker-than-previous estimates. ...

BEDFORD, N.H. (AP) — Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty says limiting Social Security payments to wealthier Americans could help the nation confront its mounting national deficit. Pawlenty, a potential 2012 presidential contender, told an audience in ...

HONOLULU (AP) - Lillie Gonzales does whatever it takes to provide for three ravenous sons who live under her roof. She grows her own vegetables at home on Kauai, runs her own small business and like a record 42 million other Americans, she relies on ...