The agency's newly minted commissioner faced pointed questions from lawmakers about the future of the agency and its ability ...

The nation’s key program for retiree benefits continues to see financing shortfalls. Unless Congress acts, those drops could ...

Starting June 2025, new SSA ID rules to fight fraud may delay Social Security checks. Learn how to avoid disruptions to your ...

The Trump administration says DOGE needs access to carry out its mission of targeting waste and fraud in the federal government. Musk had been focused on Social Security as an alleged hotbed of fraud.

Education officials will begin more rigorous screening of financial aid applicants, citing instances of fraud at California’s community colleges.

Reports from the Social Security Administration’s inspector general in March 2023 and July 2024 state that the agency has not established a new system to properly annotate death information in ...

Part of the confusion comes from Social Security’s software system based on the COBOL programming language, which has a lack of date type. This means that some entries with missing or incomplete ...

House witness Dan Turner defends his characterization of Social Security as a 'Ponzi scheme' after a challenge by Rep. Robert ... a program mired for decades with concerns about waste, fraud, ...

The recent controversy surrounding the Office of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the Social Security Administration (SSA) ...

In acknowledgment of those concerns, the federal government carefully stores most data about Americans in separate databases, ...

A Canadian man has been arrested, sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison and ordered to repay $420,000 he stole in Social Security benefits over a 30-year period, the U.S. Attorney’s Office ...

Clear Start Tax Urges Victims to Act Quickly to Limit IRS Damage IRVINE, CA / ACCESS Newswire / June 25, 2025 / Even after ...