The Trump administration’s colossal cuts to the Social Security Administration in the name of “efficiency” are sowing chaos ...

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The wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller demanded that the acting head of the Social Security Administration back up claims by billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk of massive phone ...

Under DOGE's instruction, the SSA made significant changes, including a 7,000-job workforce reduction and a new anti-fraud system.

The Social Security Administration says it has processed 2.5 million retroactive payments to people previously locked out of retirement benefits.

Nearly 100 years after the Great Depression, Americans are still benefiting from New Deal programs—and their protections and entitlements have become such a part of the social fabric that we ...

Bisignano's suggestions for revamping the SSA phone system come as the agency continues to struggle with serving the nearly 70 million Americans reliant on Social Security benefits each month.

Former SSA chief says media’s ‘Social Security hysteria’ is false — claims Trump team has already paid $14.8B in long-delayed benefits to 2.2M Americans. But are things really getting better?

Starting in 1972, the Social Security Administration (SSA) centralized its operations and began assigning area numbers based on the ZIP code of the mailing address listed on the application.

To that end, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is going after overpayments more aggressively. In March, it announced plans to withhold 100% of benefits, if needed, to recoup overpaid funds.

The Trump administration secured a key victory in federal court this week as a judge allowed Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to continue firing workers and closing down ...

The SSA was already under a hiring freeze and understaffed when it was asked to implement the new Social Security Fairness Act (SFA) at the start of the year.