Social Security, Risk
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Learn the top Social Security changes in 2026 — from COLA increases to new income limits — and how they could affect your benefits.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson recently said he wants to adjust Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid funding. Doing so would decrease the country's ballooning entitlement spending, which is essentially the rapid growth of mandatory government programs like Social Security,
Social Security disability benefits can provide crucial income support, but eligibility is notoriously strict.
Social Security is in trouble, but it’s not going bankrupt and it’s not going away in the near future. That’s an important conclusion from the 2026 OASDI Trustees Report that was released on June 9. The Social Security OASDI Trust Funds are projected to be depleted in the third quarter of 2034;
