President Trump and Elon Musk claim Social Security pays millions of dead people. The reality: less than one percent of the ...

To that end, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is going after overpayments more aggressively. In March, it announced ...

An internal document bolsters warnings that the hunt for fraud is a pretext for slashing Social Security benefits.

Social Security beneficiaries may welcome the withholding rate reduction, but financial advisors say the back-and-forth ...

The Social Security Administration is walking back ... of expert advice - straight to your e-mail. Sign up “Improper payments have been a longstanding challenge for SSA.

Following a party-line Senate vote, Frank Bisignano takes charge of the Social Security Administration amid fears of ...

Although improper payments do (occasionally) go out, there are no 150-year-olds receiving benefits. “Obviously, we want to make sure that people who deserve to receive Social Security do receive ...

An internal document reveals that the Trump administration’s crackdown on supposed fraud in Social Security phone claims has identified just two questionable cases out of more than 110,000—prompting ...

“A previous investigation revealed the SSA paid at least $71.8 billion in improper payments. "The Social Security Administration is now working to find even more waste, fraud, and abuse in the ...

May 2025's second round of Social Security payments will head out to recipients soon. Here's the monthly payment schedule. Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus ...

Proposed changes to Social Security under Trump mirror Reagan-era tactics that slashed disability benefits and triggered mass ...

Less than 0.3% of those deaths are reported incorrectly. Improper payments can occur in these cases, but Social Security fraud among the dead is nowhere near as widespread as the Trump ...