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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...