Social Security says it will automatically withhold 50 percent of a person’s monthly benefit to collect a new overpayment if the money is not repaid within 30 days of the notice date. The agency describes half of the check as the standard recovery rate for Title II benefits, the retirement, survivor and disability payments most…

Supplemental Security Income recipients will see two deposits in December 2026. The first lands Tuesday, Dec. 1, the regular first-of-the-month payment. The second lands Thursday, Dec. 31, and it is the first payment at the higher 2027 rate. The Social Security Administration announced on Oct. 14 that a 3.6 percent cost-of-living adjustment takes effect for…

Social Security plans to mail paper notices showing each person’s new 2027 benefit amount in early December, weeks after an online version becomes available. The agency’s message to the public says people who sign up for paperless notices can see theirs in late November. The notices carry the 2027 cost-of-living adjustment, which Social Security puts…

A heart disability claim that is still waiting on a decision when October 30 arrives will be judged under Social Security’s rewritten cardiovascular rules, not the old ones. Applications filed on or after that day get the new criteria too. Until then, the current listings keep applying. Will a claim filed before October 30 be…

Social Security will add three new heart conditions to its disability rulebook on October 30, 2026. Cardiomyopathy and aortic valve disease each get a listing of their own, and so does cardiac allograft vasculopathy, the artery damage that can develop in a transplanted heart. The agency’s final rule covers both Social Security Disability Insurance and…

Social Security holds off collecting an overpayment while it decides a request, if the request arrives inside 30 days of the date on the notice. The agency’s overpayment page puts it plainly: “If you ask for a waiver or appeal within 30 days, we won’t collect the money until we decide on your request.” The…

Auditors at the Social Security Administration’s Office of the Inspector General found that 54 of 208 Supplemental Security Income recipients they reviewed owned a vehicle they had not reported. Eight of those 54 were over the resource limit, which made them ineligible for $40,474 in SSI payments. The findings are in a September 15, 2026…

Social Security is telling people who repay an overpayment through their bank to put the Remittance ID in the account-number field. In the agency’s instructions, the payee is “Social Security Administration,” and the Remittance ID goes where a bill-pay form asks for an account number. The agency announced the change in a July 14, 2026…

Social Security lets a widow start her survivor benefit at 62 and leave her own retirement benefit alone to grow. The agency’s claiming planner prints exactly that example: a woman who starts only her survivor benefit this year and lets her retirement benefit increase until age 70. At 70, she switches to the larger retirement…

Social Security’s deemed filing rule decides whether a person can start one benefit and let another keep growing. For anyone who turned 62 on or after January 2, 2016, the answer is no: deemed filing applies from age 62 and extends to full retirement age and beyond. People who turned 62 before that date face…