Even with new rules, Social Security overpayments can leave you on the hook for big payments, reduced benefits and ...

As the Trump administration resumes collections on defaulted student loans, hundreds of thousands of older Americans with ...

Universal credit claimants incurred more than £490m in debt last year due to hundreds of thousands of errors made by the ...

The Social Security Administration, in one of its many recent rule changes, has reverted to a pre-Biden era default clawback rate of 100% of beneficiaries’ checks for overpayments the agency ...

When it comes to Social Security, most people focus on when to claim benefits. But just as important - and far less discussed - is what happens when you're no longer around. Here' ...

If you receive more money than expected from your Social Security payment, don't assume it's a gift from the Social Security ...

Social Security beneficiaries who owe the agency if they received too much in benefits now have a lower withholding rate from their checks.

The Social Security Administration press office did not respond to questions for this article. The emergency message to ...

The Social Security Administration revised - again - its policy for clawing back overpayments in benefits, this time saying it would deduct 50% of benefit checks until an overpayment is recovered, a ...

Aliss Higham is a Newsweek reporter based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her focus is reporting on Social Security, other government benefits and personal finance. She has previously extensively covered U ...

WASHINGTON -- A month after making a drastic change to how overpayments on Social Security benefits are collected, the Social Security Administration has backtracked on the plan. In an ...

In 2024, the Biden administration reduced the Social Security overpayment recovery rate to the greater of $10 or 10% of your checks. For example, if you received $1,000 in extra Social Security ...