The agency currently has a backlog of approximately 575,000 applications thanks to a prior policy involved in the application ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) recently reversed a highly debated anti-fraud policy that delayed retirement benefit ...

The change follows reporting by Nextgov/FCW about the policy and its contributions to a slowdown in retirement claims ...

A second amendment came on April 14, when the SSA announced that anyone wishing to apply for Social Security or make account ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) said it would no longer hold retirement benefit applications for three days to check ...

SSA’s fraud-prevention phone policy, backed by DOGE and Elon Musk’s team, caused major delays and few results, drawing ...

A probe into Social Security phone fraud found only 2 likely fraud cases out of 110,000 calls, contradicting earlier claims.

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

The agency is abandoning an initiative aimed at preventing fraud, the latest example of a failed effort by Elon Musk’s ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has walked back a key element of a recently introduced anti-fraud measure that sparked widespread criticism from senior citizens and advoca ...

Asked about the latest change in policy, a Social Security spokesperson said the agency “continues to refine the anti-fraud algorithm to flag only the claims with the highest probability of fraud.

Announced in April, the anti-fraud check policy for benefit claims made over SSA’s phone lines was one of many changes and reversals the agency announced as DOGE and White House officials made ...