Qualifying for Social Security benefits in retirement generally goes something like this: Work and pay taxes on your income.

Learn about the key types of employer-sponsored retirement plans, tax-advantaged IRAs and Social Security benefits.

If you qualify for Social Security retirement benefits you can sign up to begin getting them any time after age 62. While it may sound appealing to start collecting the money as soon as possible ...

If you haven't reached full retirement age, you can sign up for a reduced Social Security benefit as long as you're at least ...

To claim your full benefit, you need to sign up for Social Security at your full retirement age, which varies by birth year. Here's a look at how the Social Security retirement age is changing ...

If you and your spouse have a nice amount of money saved up, then you may decide that you'll each claim Social Security as ...

There are a number of tough decisions you might face as retirement gets near. You may, for example, be torn over whether to ...

Social Security benefits will be paid to millions of recipients later this week. Social Security benefits serve as the ...

Ken and Rick discuss the pros and cons of retiring early and how this can affect social security benefits and taxes.

When we begin planning for retirement, we typically start with Social Security. This is because the payments from Social Security benefits — a guaranteed income for a lifetime that increases ...