The Social Security Administration's plan to require in-person identity checks for millions of new and existing recipients while simultaneously closing government offices has sparked a furor among ...

One of the newly unredacted documents, for example, discloses the Social Security numbers of more than two dozen people seeking security clearances in the 1990s to review JFK-related documents for ...

A U.S. district judge in Maryland blocked the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing personal data from the Social Security Administration—delivering the latest legal blow to ...

Cavan Images / Getty images Social Security isn't just for retirement. It also provides benefits to the dependents of covered workers, including spouses, dependent parents, children, and ...

Languages: English. The Social Security Administration (SSA) has announced a new cost-cutting initiative aimed at reducing operational costs and enhancing efforts to combat identity fraud.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urged the public to "buy Tesla" stock, a highly unusual promotion by a Cabinet member of a company whose current investors have suffered a sharp slide in share ...

Musk’s statement that Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme,” and his plans to cut up to 12 percent of the Social Security Administration’s workforce, are giving GOP lawmakers heartburn.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. To limit fraudulent Social Security claims, the Trump administration is stopping identity verifications over ...

Significant changes will be coming for Social Security recipients. Millions will no longer be able to verify their identity over the phone, creating a challenge for older Americans and those with ...

More Americans may need to visit their Social Security offices in person after the agency that runs it announced an update to its security policies. The Social Security Administration announced ...

To better protect from fraudulent claims, the Social Security Administration announced it’ll be implementing “stronger identity verification procedures,” including requiring millions of ...

WASHINGTON — Calling it an effort to limit fraudulent claims, the Social Security Administration will impose tighter identity-proofing measures — which will require millions of recipients and ...