Your Social Security checks could look a little different this month if you're one of the 3.2 million Americans affected by the recent passage of the Social Security Fairness Act. Some retired ...

No agency or program seems to be safe from scrutiny. Not even Social Security. The tech billionaire recently called Social Security a "giant Ponzi scheme" and suggested that millions of dead ...

41 Social Security offices are cutting 25-58% of workers under DOGE's budget reductions. The agency faces increased customer service demand as retirees worry cuts will affect benefits. This comes ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) reiterated its plans to walk back proposed cuts to its phone services, saying it would be implementing an “anti-fraud check.” “Beginning on April 14 ...

Special Correspondent Rennie Glasgow took a pay cut when he left a job in sales to sign on with the Social Security Administration (SSA) 15 years ago, but he felt the stirring of something bigger ...

Telephone cuts would have led to more people having to visit offices Advocates warned the planned cuts could overwhelm the SSA SSA gives no reason for abrupt reversal April 9 (Reuters ...

The Social Security Administration last week wrongly informed some recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), the federal program that provides financial assistance to disabled Americans ...

Ongoing issues with the computer system used by the Social Security Administration led to a scary, but false warning being issued to millions of beneficiaries. According to The Washington Post ...

Some Social Security recipients will see their monthly payment amount increase in April as a recently enacted law is implemented. Americans who receive a public-sector pension in retirement were ...

Aliss Higham is a Newsweek reporter based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her focus is reporting on Social Security, other government benefits and personal finance. She has previously extensively covered U ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. After standing up a Social Security War Room to respond to what some Democrats are calling a “prelude to privatization” at the ...