Social Security News

      The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) has produced a lengthy Report to Congress on Sources and Access to State Death Da...

    From a recent report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General: SSA suspends benefit payments for a variety of reasons. Sus...

      From a recent report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG): ... To identify and prevent payments after death, SS...

      From Cox Media Group : The Social Security Administration plays a critical role in helping people with financial relief in their lat...

      From CBS News : Mary Hutson of Santo, about an hour west of Fort Worth, began teaching elementary school students in 1963. Now, the g...

     Last night Social Security sent out a press release saying SSI recipients have to May 5 to file “tax returns” in order for their min...

     From the Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction, CO: Nine little numbers can kill you. Seriously. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust deadly. ...

     The Social Security Advisory Board (SSAB) has issued a report recommending that the Social Security Administration ought to get out ...

     Former Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue gave an interview to This American Life on, of all things, Social Security'...

     I had posted recently about the problems a widow faced after she reported her husband’s death to Social Security and a Social Securi...

     From a recent report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG) : ... Based on a recommendation in our August 2012...

     From Ann Brenoff writing for Huffpost : For the past 12 months, your tax dollars have been going to pay Social Security benefits t...

     From a recent report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG) : Each month, the VA [Department of Veterans Affair...

     There are cases where the Social Security Administration (SSA) has assigned more than one Social Security Number (SSN) to an indivi...

     From a television station in Denver : An Arvada woman died about five years ago, but no one told her. And it came as quite a surpri...

     From a recent report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG) : Death information on CDPH [California Depart of...

     From The News Advance of Lynchburg, VA (emphasis added): The Luedkes — husband George and wife Ann — had just returned from vacat...

     Even the New England Journal of Medicine is reporting on the problems of Social Security's Death Master File .

     Michael Hiltzik didn't think much of the 60 Minutes piece on the problems with Social Security's Death Master File (DMF). Her...

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