The final round of July Social Security payments, worth up to $5,108 for the highest-income earners who retire at age 70, goes out in four days. When does the check arrive? Social Security payments usually begin on the second Wednesday of every month, and the following waves go out on a weekly basis. The distribution […]

August Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $967, will go out to recipients in under two weeks.  SSI payments are typically distributed at the start of every month to beneficiaries with limited income who are either blind, 65 and older, or have a qualifying disability.  The amount recipients receive varies based on several factors, […]

Democrats will be put to the test next week when Senate Republicans bring to a vote the first of several bipartisan government funding bills for next fiscal year. But fresh off a Republican-controlled Congress clawing back $9 billion in DOGE-inspired cuts from money that both parties previously approved, Democrats are at a crossroads regarding whether […]

With a late-night vote in Congress to cut PBS and NPR funding, Mitt Romney‘s vision has come to pass. During a 2012 presidential debate, the GOP nominee famously pledged to “stop the subsidy to PBS” even though he liked Sesame Street character Big Bird. Romney also apologized to the moderator, Jim Lehrer, who was a […]