Losing your Social Security card won’t affect your benefits, but it poses an identity theft risk. Request a replacement and ...

Few factors can have as big of an impact on most seniors' finances in retirement than the size of their Social Security check ...

Back then, there was no need to report that death to the Social Security Administration because there were no benefit ...

WASHINGTON — The Social Security Administration's acting commissioner has stepped down from her role at the agency over Department of Government Efficiency requests to access Social Security ...

Elon Musk highlighted a major issue in the US Social Security database, identifying 20 million centenarians while Census data counts only 86,000. Historical audits showed many listed individuals ...

Tesla Inc. TSLA CEO Elon Musk, who serves on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under the President Donald Trump administration sparked a discussion about Social Security ...

By Alan Rappeport Andrew Duehren and Nicholas Nehamas Reporting from Washington The top official at the Social Security Administration stepped down this weekend after members of Elon Musk’s so ...

Furthermore, the audit noted that the Numident is not the only way the SSA keeps death records used to terminate payments to deceased Social Security recipients. Per the audit: SSA terminated ...

While an audit published in 2023 found that the central Social Security database, known as the Numident, does include 18.9 million people born before 1920 who do not have death information on record — ...

In 2023, Social Security’s inspector general reported that as of 2020 Social Security’s “Numident” file of each person issued a Social Security number contained 18.9 million entries for ...

Sometimes there are errors. Occasionally there is outright fraud. Elon Musk and DOG-E have been looking at US Social Security data. They created a table of Social Security-eligible people not recorded ...