A Musk-backed fraud policy at SSA caused chaos and delays with little fraud prevention success. Here's what went wrong.

Social Security scams are certainly not new, so receiving an unexpected email about your account can seem suspicious.

Fraud attempts may appear in the form of “tariff payment request” texts or emails claiming to be from retailers, delivery ...

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

The dollar amount of reported food stamp fraud increased from fiscal year 2023 to 2024 by 387%, according to documents ...

Lois Frankel's virtual town hall meeting details Democrats' resistance to Trump agenda with urgings for voters to keep up the ...

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

SSA’s fraud-prevention phone policy, backed by DOGE and Elon Musk’s team, caused major delays and few results, drawing ...

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

After nearly a decade of investigating Social Security fraud on his own time and dime, Fallbrook resident Glenn Beurman is finally seeing signs of interest from federal officials—particularly since ...

It was difficult coming out of the pandemic, when phone restrictions were “very loose,” he said, but “after a while I got used to it like any other policy or rule.” “It even felt nice to ...

New rules and policies have ... entirely over the phone without the need to come into an office. More changes were still to come. On April 14, the SSA announced a new anti-fraud technology that ...