Why It's Important: The legal battle over DOGE's access to Social Security data is one of several that emerged in the early weeks of Trump's second term, as a cost-cutting team led by Tesla Inc ...

Lawmakers and advocates rally to protect Social Security as the Department of Government Efficiency expands its cost-cutting ...

Doge’s Impact on SSA: Changes and Digital Shift . Nearly 70 million Americans rely on Social Security each month, and the DOGE initiative has already made significant operational changes at the SSA.

Supreme Court allows DOGE to access Social Security data The dispute concerns efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency, largely led by Elon Musk, to access sensitive data, including ...

DOGE's expanded Social Security access raises fresh privacy fears: ... Several issues have come up since DOGE began working at the SSA in an effort to identify waste, fraud and abuse.

(CNN) — When people think of Social Security, they typically think of monthly benefits — for the roughly 69 million retirees, disabled workers, dependents and survivors who receive them today.

The main language used to run Social Security’s core systems, for example, is a 60-year-old program called COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language). There aren’t that many people alive who ...

In the Social Security Administration case, the Trump administration asked the justices to intervene after a federal judge in Maryland said DOGE representatives appeared to have violated privacy ...

Editor’s Note: This article, which originally ran on February 19, has been updated to reflect a Supreme Court decision handed down on June 6. When people think of Social Security, they typically ...

The personal data the Social Security Adminstration has on most Americans runs “from ... there are concerns that if DOGE team members get access to the SSA systems and seek to make ...