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 ...

Physicians engaged in palliative and end-of-life care can appreciate the tremendous value social workers add to an interdisciplinary care team.

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 ...

To sustain social work as a driver of intergenerational well-being, investment in personnel, policies, and public recognition ...

Sen. Dick Durbin writes how Elon Musk and DOGE are cutting too many federal leases. That means no local office for Social ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — More than 150 social workers — and social work students — gathered at The Staten Island Foundation Elizabeth Dubovsky Fellowship in Social Work Conference last week.

The Kennedy Center laid off the bulk of its social impact team, which sought to make art more accessible to those not in the ...

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.