In one of the most impoverished areas of Seoul, South Korea, residents live in precarious conditions: tiny micro-units often ...

If your spouse (or ex-spouse) is still alive and is due to receive Social Security benefits, it pays to look into how much ...

A researcher spent a year living in a jjokbang-chon, an extremely impoverished neighborhood in Seoul, South Korea. While there, he calculated residents' carbon footprints, finding they contribute much ...

Social work extends beyond the simple management of social suffering to a comprehensive approach to care. The most vulnerable ...

If you were married for at least 10 years, you may be eligible for spousal benefits based on an ex-spouse's work record. To be eligible to collect spousal Social Security benefits, the following ...

A day after it announced the elimination of the Office of Transformation, the SSA said it was closing the Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity and that it would reassign the office's tasks - ...

You haven't earned enough work credit for a Social Security retirement benefit of your own, or you have earned a retirement benefit of your own, but the spousal benefit would be higher.

Some Social Security recipients could soon find ... to cut costs at the agency by firing thousands of workers and closing field offices. Dudek has described the 100% clawback rate as part of ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

A new exhibition documents American photography's first 70 years, exploring the US during a period of immense social, ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

Introducing the 5is - internet-only, intelligent, intermediated, interactive, immersive. Our 5i's are the way we view how ...