Each year, about two million people are told they owe the Social Security Administration money because the agency ...

Social Security tends to be the subject of rumors. You might read on the internet that the program is going bankrupt, or that ...

Between fiscal years 2015 through 2022, SSA estimates it made nearly $72 billion in improper payments. Beginning March 27, the Social Security Administration will begin withholding 100% of ...

The nation’s key program for retiree benefits continues to see financing shortfalls. Unless Congress acts, those drops could ...

A 2024 audit of the Social Security program found $72 billion in improper payments to Americans between 2015 and 2022. That sounds like a lot of money, until you consider that Social Security ...

The liberal justices dissented as the high court lets the cost-cutting team scour massive databases on Americans.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) will resume withholding 100% of benefits from individuals who were overpaid until overpayments are recovered. The change reverses a temporary policy that ...

O’Malley and Bisignano disagree on the extent of fraud and improper payments within the agency. Frank Bisignano is the new head of the Social Security Administration after being confirmed May 6 ...

Using Social Security data to imply that noncitizens ... notes that he is tasked with work on death data and reducing improper payments and that "security controls will be implemented to prevent ...

Elon Musk put a big target on the Social Security Administration in the first weeks of the Trump administration, claiming it is plagued by “immense waste” and promising audits to root out ...

Experts say the relatively small amount of improper Social Security payments — estimated at less than 1 percent of paid benefits — has little to do with dead people or undocumented immigrants ...

Judge Robert King said the “government has sought to accord the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) immediate and ...