What will you have: benefit cuts or tax hikes? Maybe a little of each. Here is what six potential solutions to the system’s bankruptcy would do to you. Seven years from now, more or less, the Social ...

For the vast majority of people, the stream of promised retirement checks is worth more than anything else, our columnist says. By Jeff Sommer Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on markets ...

Before going any further, let me assuage any fears for current and future beneficiaries about Social Security payouts: The program isn't going bankrupt, and payments won't be halted. More than 91% of ...