Social Security and Medicare will not be able to fully pay benefits in just over a decade if lawmakers don’t act to address the pending shortfalls, according to reports released Monday by the entitlement programs’ trustees. While the trust funds’ finances improved slightly, they remain in dire shape.

Social Security will live to see another year before its trust funds cumulatively run out of money, and Medicare Part A’s trust fund depletion date gained another two years – but the clock is still ticking for the government to fix the insolvency issue. 

Without any changes in the next 13 years, Social Security beneficiaries can expect to see a 20% cut to their Social Security checks in 2035, according to the Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees report released on Thursday. For Medicare Part A beneficiaries, the...

The Medicare trust fund will be exhausted in 2036, and the combined Social Security trust fund will become exhausted in 2035, the programs’ trustees projected on Monday.

The report illustrates the long-term problems facing the entitlement programs, on which tens of millions of people rely. Nevertheless, it contained good news in that the deadlines have been moved back a bit from last year’s projections.

On the front line of the drive for US political action on climate, the youth movement has had a largely unsung partner—one with more experience, greater resources and often, ample time to devote to the cause.

Voters aged 65 and older are second only to those between the ages of 18 and 34 in naming climate and the environment their highest political priorities, according to a new 18-state study by the Boston-based Environmental Voter Project, or EVP.

A study shows that so-called “good cholesterol” may not be as healthy as previously believed. 

The study, published Wednesday in the journal Neurology, claims that high or low levels of high-density lipoprotein, or HDL, could increase dementia risk for older people.

Researchers tracked more than 180,000 California residents through health surveys for about two years starting between 2002 and 2007, then tracked the group using medical records for about nine years on average. The subjects are now an average of 70 years old.

Seniors face more than $50 billion in unpaid medical bills, many of which they shouldn’t have to pay, according to a federal watchdog report.

In an all-too-common scenario, medical providers charge elderly patients the full price of an expensive medical service rather than work with the insurer that is supposed to cover it. If the patient doesn’t pay, the provider sends the bill into collections, setting off a round of frightening letters, humiliating phone calls and damaging credit reports.

The gunmen in both of the recent shootings in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay, California, had an unusual profile compared to most perpetrators of violent crime: They were both senior citizens.

The Monterey Park gunman, who killed 11 and injured nine before fatally shooting himself, was 72. The Half Moon Bay gunman, who killed seven people before he was arrested in what police have characterized as an act of workplace violence, is 66.

Adults with mild to moderate hearing loss can now purchase hearing aids over the counter at stores across the United States, including Walgreens, CVS, and Walmart, or online without a prescription.

OF COURSE BIDEN IS TOO OLD TO BE PRESIDENT. There's an unintentionally amusing article in the Atlantic that has gotten a lot of discussion lately. It's about the age issue and President Joe Biden, who will turn 80 this November. The journalist Mark Leibovich began the piece this way: "Let me put this bluntly: Joe Biden should not run for reelection in 2024.

A Democratic proposal with the potential to transform life for the elderly and people with disabilities may get less than half the funding its champions envisioned, according to multiple sources involved in Capitol Hill deliberations.