Two years ago, someone falsely filed for a tax refund with my Social Security number. Now anything that involves my Social Security number is locked.

Question: What is the estimated average Social Security payment that a person receives each month? Answer: The estimated average monthly Social Security benefit for a retired worker in 2025 is $1,976.

I’m certainly not an expert on Social Security. I will leave that up to Tom Margenau, who regularly writes a weekly column for this newspaper on Social Security.

Instead, he insists Republicans will eliminate ‘fraud’ and ‘abuse.’ President Trump is promising that his “one big beautiful” bill to push through his agenda will not touch Social Security or Medicare and Medicaid.

Undocumented immigrants in the U.S. contribute billions of dollars per year in federal taxes, state and local taxes, Social Security, and Medicare.

NOTE: Because Toni recently received more reader queries about creating a My Social Security account after the account is blocked, we are rerunning the following column from April of 2024.

In Washington, they're talking about cutting Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security for the first time in generations.

Dan Bishop, a former House lawmaker, said he expects the White House to avoid cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

President Trump promised that “Social Security won’t be touched, other than if there’s fraud or something. It’s going to be strengthened. Medicare, Med