New bipartisan laws approved in December strengthen how Social Security responds to identity theft and better protect ...

Last week, the Social Security Administration (SSA) quietly updated a public notice to reveal that the agency would be sharing “citizenship and immigration information” with the Department of Homeland ...

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WASHINGTON ― Personal information of more than 300 million Americans is at risk of being leaked or hacked after employees of the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded a sensitive Social ...

The change comes through an executive order signed on March 25 titled "Modernizing Payments To and From America's Bank Account." The Social Security Administration (SSA) says the shift affects roughly ...

A whistleblower has come forward with troubling information regarding DOGE's handling of Americans' Social Security data. Credit: Samuel Corum/Getty Images The Social Security Administration's Chief ...

In a landmark move, President Donald Trump has ordered the end of paper Social Security checks by September 30, requiring more than half a million beneficiaries to switch to digital payment methods.

Charles Borges, then chief data officer for the vast Social Security Administration, was alarmed last summer when he learned that members of Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service had copied a mainframe ...