The Social Security COLA increase for 2025 is finally here, and so is your boosted benefits check. Here's when you can expect it.

Those who receive Social Security payments will see a bit of a change to their regularly scheduled payments for the first couple months of 2025. In particular, those receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) will receive their first payment of 2025 this Tuesday, the final day of 2024.

We're a couple of days away from the new year, and that means the next Social Security checks will include the 2025 COLA increase.

The Social Security Fairness Act hopes to bring more benefits to retirees and government employees in 2025. This act ends provisions that reduce federal benefits for those who are eligible for other pensions.

Social Security is critical to many millions of retirees, keeping lots of them above the poverty line. Whether it keeps you solvent or just enhances your financial security in retirement, Social Security is likely to be an important source of retirement income.

Newsday talked with financial advisers for advice on when you should sign up to start receiving benefits, and an expert on the politics of Social Security explains why there are proposals to raise the retirement age beyond 67 — and why that hasn’t happened.

Social Security faces a potential funding shortfall by 2033-2035, with one key factor being the $168,000 payroll tax cap that hasn't kept pace with rising high-end incomes. Removing this cap could address 70% of the projected deficit,

The average Social Security benefit will reach $1,976 per month in January 2025. It could crack $2,000 per month for the first time as the year continues. While these larger check