The repeal of two provisions will boost Social Security payments for certain beneficiaries, and will include back payments.

Widowed women in the Baby Boomer generation are expected to inherit roughly $40 trillion between 2024 and 2048, according to Cerulli Associates.

In November, Washington State voters defeated a ballot measure that would have significantly undermined the nation’s first social insurance program for long-term care by a surprisingly comfortable 55 ...