The Congressional Budget Office estimated that roughly 750,000 government employees would be furloughed each day during the shutdown. While the changes in services at local Social Security offices are not tied to the government shutdown, any update in reduced services could make it more difficult for recipients to receive their benefits.

The U.S. government shut down on Wednesday after Congress failed to approve funding for federal agencies. Here's how that could affect Social Security recipients.

Social Security beneficiaries will soon find out the size of the cost-of-living adjustment for 2026. There's a debate over the way those increases are measured.

While payments continue flowing, certain in-person services have been suspended during the three-week shutdown.

The employee has worked at SSA headquarters in Woodlawn for close to 20 years and has seen a fair share of shutdowns, but nothing like this he says.

There’s a reason many seniors on Social Security had October 15 circled on their calendars. That was the date the Social Security Administration was supposed to make an official 2026 COLA announcement.

The SSA uses September’s CPI to chart cost-of-living adjustments, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics has halted data collection.

Trump on Tuesday rebuffed a request by top Democratic lawmakers to meet until the three-week-old U.S. government shutdown ends.