Several senators are calling on the Social Security Administration to reconsider what they say is a flaw in the implementation of the law.

Thirteen people alleging childhood sexual abuse by Catholic priests, nuns and teachers decades ago cannot file civil lawsuits because a retroactive law eliminating the statute of limitations violates ...

More than 1 million Americans have received retroactive Social Security payments as a result of the Social Security Fairness Act that was signed into law by then-President Joe Biden on Jan. 5. At the ...

A court has granted retroactive first offender status under a new Georgia law allowing a second chance for those who were eligible but not offered the opportunity to earn the removal of a conviction ...

A move by state legislators to retroactively change self-defense laws is unconstitutional, the Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled. Without dissent, the judges said Cesar Montes, convicted of the 2005 ...

Before I get to today’s questions, all of which deal with claiming retroactive benefits, I must make this general point: The law says you can claim up to six months’ worth of retroactive benefits, as ...