Social Security News

      From a press release : Today,  House Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member John B. Larson (CT-01)  released the following statem...

      The New York Post is running an article in which Senator Joni Ernst criticizes Social Security for making payments to dead people. Th...

       From a press release : The U.S. Senate unanimously passed Sens. John Kennedy (R-La.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Ron Wyden’s (D-Ore.)’...

       From the New York Times : The Trump administration has backed away from a maneuver in which it sought to classify thousands of living...

     From the Washington Post : “We’re also identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the Social Security program ...

From CNN Politics:   Spurred by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, the Social Security Administration is combing through its d...

      SentiLink asks and to a large extent answers the question “What’s going on with SSA’s Death Master File?” The answer is that DOGE add...

     From the Daily Beast: What might be called Day of the Dead Living is being continually played out at a Social Security Administration (...

      From the Washington Post: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with d...

      Social Security has posted an affidavit from Tiffany Flick in the case concerning DOGE access to agency databases. I don’t understand...

      If a live man is listed as dead in the Death Master File, are dependent benefits payable to his “widow” and children? Sounds like a ca...

      From the Washington Post: Two days after the Social Security Administration purposely and falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as d...

      Banks have a clear legal obligation to freeze the accounts of people who have died. What obligation or even right do they have to free...

      From the New York Times: Since taking office, the Trump administration has moved to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of t...

      A press release from Social Security's Office of Inspector General: Receiving accurate reports of death is a major and ongoing co...

  Sunday, March 16, 2025 Immediate Release Mark Hinkle, Press Officer press.office@ssa.gov Social Security Provides Update about its Death R...

      The Trump Administration is asserting that there are literally tens of millions of people receiving Social Security benefits even thou...

      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...