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Sick and getting sicker, Social Security will run at a deficit this year and keep on running in the red until its trust funds are drained by about 2037, congressional budget experts said Wednesday in bleaker-than-previous estimates....

More than 58 million retirees and disabled Americans will get no increase in Social Security benefits next year, the second year in a row without a raise.

Obama revives scare tactic, saying GOP wants to privatize it, but liberal groups see another threat.

The latest form of identity theft doesn't depend on stealing your Social Security number. Now thieves are targeting your kid's number long before the little one has a bank account.

By law, Social Security benefits can't decline. But because premiums for the Medicare drug program are expected to increase 11% next year, seniors who have those premiums deducted from their benefits will see a drop in payments, says Barbara Kennelly, president of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.

Big job losses and a spike in early retirement claims from laid-off seniors will force Social Security to pay out more in benefits than it collects in taxes the next two years, the first time that's happened since the 1980s....

"One Tree Hill" actor Antwon Tanner has pleaded not guilty to involvement in a Social Security scheme. If convicted, he faces up to five years in jail.

A congressional investigation has exposed gaping holes in security eight years after the September 11 terrorist attacks. In the "most egregious" case, a government report says, an investigator used the Social Security number of a man who died in 1965 to obtain a Social Security card.