Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only two claims out of over 110,000 were found to ...

Individuals applying for retirement or survivor benefits from the Social Security Administration (SSA) must now use online or ...

First, the question about filing a late return. A reader wanted to confirm that there are no penalties for filing a late ...

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

AARP’s Fraud Watch Network helps teach older adults how to spot scams. We organize events and education, with hundreds of ...

Recent claims of dead people collecting Social Security have caused public confusion. Here’s how Social Security’s death ...

Last year, the FBI unraveled one of the largest digital fraud cases in U.S. history, in which cyber criminals from around the ...

The injunction does allow DOGE staffers to access data that’s been redacted or stripped of anything personally identifiable.

The truth is that there are always fraud cases under investigation. Musk hasn’t discovered anything new. The Social Security Administration has a robust set of systems in place to detect ...

This case exposes a wide fissure in the foundation," the judge ... access" to the agency's troves of sensitive personal information to uncover Social Security fraud. "What is it we're doing that needs ...

The truth is that there are always fraud cases under investigation. Musk hasn’t discovered anything new. The Social Security Administration has a robust set of systems in place to detect ...