Retirees and disabled people are facing chronic website outages and other access problems as they attempt to log in to their online Social Security accounts, even as they are being directed to do more of their business with the agency online.

The Social Security Administration said on Tuesday that unusually high traffic to its “my Social Security” website and an old computer system led to an online outage, according to a post on social-media website X.

Elon Musk’s war on fraud and abuse has impacted the Social Security Administration’s ability to distribute payments, according to a new report. In particular, frequent outages of the agency’s website in recent weeks have been linked to its expansion of fraud checks earlier in the claims process. From the Washington Post:

The Social Security Administration addressed outages being reported on its website as a new deadline calling for more online usage nears.

The move by the Social Security Administration essentially cancels an immigrant's Social Security number and classifies them as dead.

The Trump administration’s move to classify thousands of living immigrants as dead and cancel their Social Security numbers is an escalation of the president’s crackdown on people who were legally allowed to live in the U.