Right now, Social Security is failing seniors in important ways — and the situation is only likely to get worse. ...

Under the Chained CPI, yearly benefits for a typical 65-year-old would be about $136 less, according to an analysis of Social Security data. At age 75, annual benefits under the new index would be ...

Financially speaking, we keep asking more of retirees. First, we ask folks who have saved for a lifetime to live on less while banks and indebted consumers use low interest rates to heal. Then we ask ...

For the second straight month, core CPI (stripping out more volatile food and energy prices) rose by 0.3 percent, and the annual core inflation number ticked up from 3.2 percent in August to 3.3 ...