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Social Security Administration makes another change to application process, how will it impact you?
The agency currently has a backlog of approximately 575,000 applications thanks to a prior policy involved in the application ...
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SSA changes phone fraud policies after finding very little fraud
The change follows reporting by Nextgov/FCW about the policy and its contributions to a slowdown in retirement claims ...
2 Social Security changes that have happened in the last 4 weeks
A second amendment came on April 14, when the SSA announced that anyone wishing to apply for Social Security or make account ...
Social Security doesn’t take long to reverse controversial anti-fraud policy
The Social Security Administration (SSA) said it would no longer hold retirement benefit applications for three days to check ...
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SSA's DOGE phone policy led to delays with minimal fraud caught
SSA’s fraud-prevention phone policy, backed by DOGE and Elon Musk’s team, caused major delays and few results, drawing ...
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Social Security phone fraud probe reveals only 0.0018% of calls flagged
A probe into Social Security phone fraud found only 2 likely fraud cases out of 110,000 calls, contradicting earlier claims.
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DOGE went looking for phone fraud at SSA — and found almost none
Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only two claims out of over 110,000 were found to ...
How DOGE’s grand plan to remake Social Security is backfiring
The agency is abandoning an initiative aimed at preventing fraud, the latest example of a failed effort by Elon Musk’s ...
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SSA drops estate recovery limit to $3,000, opening door to more collections
The SSA has lowered its estate recovery threshold from $5,000 to $3,000, enabling collection of smaller amounts in certain ...
DOGE said 40% of the Social Security Administr’s calls were ‘fraudulent.’ Data suggests it was actually less than 1%
Elon Musk and his engineers claim 'insane' amounts of fraud in Social Security, but the real figures don’t back it up.
DOGE fraud tracker at SSA, far from delivering satisfactory results
The phone fraud data at the Social Security Administration (SSA) presented by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency ...
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DOGE went looking for phone fraud at SSA — and found almost none
Announced in April, the anti-fraud check policy for benefit claims made over SSA’s phone lines was one of many changes and reversals the agency announced as DOGE and White House officials made ...