Depending on your exact age, you may have the option to claim Social Security following a layoff in your 60s. But should you?

Imagine this scenario: Gary has been job hunting for the past 10 months after being laid off by his previous employer. He has ...

She said she’s grateful hundreds of laid-off employees can go back to their jobs at the CDC. “I’m so happy for them, but I’m also a little confused because the government decided these ...

I was surprised when my parents gave me $5,000 for my wedding, bringing our budget to $10,000. On a tight budget, I got creative with the planning, but then I was laid off. Although I don't know ...

Steve Jaffe was laid off for the first time in 2001. But that wasn’t the last time for Mr. Jaffe, now 52 and a self-employed marketing strategist in Altadena, Calif.

Methuen teachers turned out at a City Council meeting Monday night, saying the mayor’s proposed cuts to the educator workforce would mean an entire school’s worth of educators will have been ...

Microsoft has 228,000 employees worldwide, meaning more than 6,800 people could be laid off. In Washington, 1,985 employees were laid off Tuesday, according to an Employment Security Department ...

It is unclear how many other laid-off FDA employees might be replaced with contractors. The department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. "The people who were doing the job were ...