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Changes to Social Security tax policy and their effects on retirees, including higher taxable wage bases and Medicare payroll-tax rates
payments change how taxpayers compute the by forcing a re‑calculation for the earlier year involved and by offering a “lump‑sum election” that can sometimes reduce current‑year taxable benefits; provi...
Proposed and implemented raise monthly payments modestly through a roughly 2.5% COLA while loosening some work-disincentive thresholds—raising the Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA) and trial work per...
— often called “provisional income” or “combined income” — is a formulaic construct used by the and to decide whether some portion of retirement benefits are included in federal taxable income: combin...
U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants matter to Social Security and Medicare largely because they expand the future workforce that will pay payroll taxes; the Social Security Administration ha...