Author: Robert Powell

Nearly 4 million people under 18 receive a monthly  Social Security check. Here’s how they qualify and how much they can receive.

If you’re among the hundreds of thousands who get divorced each year, you might wonder whether you’ll be eligible to collect spousal Social Security.

Planning an early retirement? When to take Social Security benefits requires weighing more than just your retirement date.

If you’re working and collecting Social Security but haven’t reached full retirement age, you might be in for a surprise: the retirement earning test.

When financial catastrophes happen in retirement, it’s harder to recover without a payday. Here’s how to get yourself prepared.

Retired? Before you can file tax returns, you need to gather all the forms received from your retirement plan, bank, brokerage or mutual fund firm.

Retirement columnist Robert Powell enlists a team of experts to help answer reader questions about Social Security changes in 2022.

There are rules about IRAs that could come back to bite you. Learn more about how they’re treated in inheritance, tax and bankruptcy situations.

Fresh-start framing – increasing your retirement contributions on dates like Jan. 1, your birthday or work anniversary – can create a new beginning.

Couples need to figure out the amount of survivors benefits each would receive after the other dies and whose benefit should be claimed first.