The agency said it is temporarily reassigning about 1,000 customer service representatives from field offices to work on the swamped toll-free phone line.

The same approach could work again: thoughtful, phased reforms that maintain the program’s core protections. Ideas on the table include lifting the payroll tax cap (currently $176,100), gradually raising the 6.2% FICA rate, or making more forms of compensation subject to payroll taxes—similar to how TSP contributions are treated.

Phones have been ringing off the hook at the Social Security Administration prompting the agency to use a temporary solution for a growing problem

Social Security benefits end when you die, unless you have a qualifying beneficiary who would begin to receive survivorship benefits.

The Social Security Administration reassigned about 1,000 customer service representatives from field offices to its national hotline.

Pairing an annuity and Social Security can have a big, and perhaps surprising, impact on your retirement plan.

The Social Security Administration lied about the GOP budget bill in a message to beneficiaries. Can we trust anything it tells us in the future?

If you can keep working while looking after your health, do it. You get 100% of your Social Security benefit at full retirement age, which is 67 for anyone born in 1960 or after, and you receive a lesser amount if you claim at any time from the age of 62 until full retirement age. If you wait until age 70, you receive roughly 8% more per year .