Some 69.4 million people — about 1 in 5 U.S. residents — received a payment from the program in April 2025. Most of them are retired older adults, many reliant on their earned benefits to put food on ...

AARP has been calling on Congress to allow the SSA to tap more of its dedicated payroll-tax revenue to bolster customer service. While the agency has reduced hold times for callers to its national ...