The payments, comprising less than 1% of total benefits paid, were mostly overpayments made from fiscal years 2015 through 2022. The SSA recently eased the rules around recovering overpayments to ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has said it is dealing with a "record-breaking backlog" of cases that has caused ...

A new watchdog report says hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are lost each year due to federal mistakes.

Agency watchdogs warned lawmakers that their centralized fraud analytics capacity could end next year without congressional ...

Here's how In February 2024, improper Social Security payments hit $1.1 billion, with overpayments and underpayments spread across various Social Security programs, including retirement ...

(NEXSTAR) – The Social Security Administration (SSA) is wrestling with a “record-breaking backlog” of cases that has led to roughly $1.1 billion in improper payments, according to a new ...

Social Security and Medicare are important safety nets for millions of Americans. Trump and Harris are likely to continue ...

Here is all you need to know about this month’s Social Security payments, which go out in three rounds. The Social Security Act was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 ...

Some are grouped inside a larger category that the Social Security Administration (SSA) calls “improper payments,” which includes everything from innocent mistakes to willful fraud.

Social Security’s SSI program and the IRS’s Earned Income Tax Credit program are among those subject to the new federal fraud ...