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

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

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

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

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

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

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has revised its estate recovery policy, reducing the threshold for recovering ...

A probe into Social Security phone fraud found only 2 likely fraud cases out of 110,000 calls, contradicting earlier claims.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has walked back a key element of a recently introduced anti-fraud measure that sparked widespread criticism from senior citizens and advoca ...

Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only two claims out of over 110,000 were found to ...

The agency is abandoning an initiative aimed at preventing fraud, the latest example of a failed effort by Elon Musk’s ...

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 ...