Many challenges face the SSA, including more retirees from the Baby Boomer generation, new laws expanding benefit eligibility ...

The SSA has lowered its estate recovery threshold from $5,000 to $3,000, enabling collection of smaller amounts in certain ...

The agency currently has a backlog of approximately 575,000 applications thanks to a prior policy involved in the application ...

A second amendment came on April 14, when the SSA announced that anyone wishing to apply for Social Security or make account ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) said it would no longer hold retirement benefit applications for three days to check ...

A month after instituting a controversial anti-fraud policy that sparked widespread concern among senior citizens, the Social ...

The change follows reporting by Nextgov/FCW about the policy and its contributions to a slowdown in retirement claims ...