HHS touts 35 states that have scaled back ‘orphan tax’ on Social Security benefits

Officials from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Tuesday that 35 states have ended the practice of intercepting federal benefits intended for orphans in foster care. For decades, state agencies have taken Social Security survivor benefits from children in foster care after the death of their parent

Your retirement benefits go further in these 10 states.

“She was a teacher at a school district, so didn’t put much into Social Security.”

Congress has reintroduced the Social Security 2100 Act, a bill that would increase benefits by 2% for some 71 million Americans—including 54 million retired workers and 9 million of their survivors and dependents. The bill would temporarily change how Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) are calculated