Aggressive fraud crackdowns can backfire — causing delays that may disrupt benefit payments, claims processing, and your ...

A month after instituting a controversial anti-fraud policy that sparked widespread concern among senior citizens, the Social ...

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) said it would no longer hold retirement benefit applications for three days to check ...

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

Social Security scams are certainly not new, so receiving an unexpected email about your account can seem suspicious.

Elon Musk and his engineers claim 'insane' amounts of fraud in Social Security, but the real figures don’t back it up.

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

A former Internal Revenue Service employee pleaded guilty on Wednesday to filing fake tax returns to fraudulently obtain tax ...

The first monthly batch of Social Security benefits are paid later this May than in any other month this year due to a quirk ...

Social Security's trust fund is in danger of insolvency by 2035 unless strong measures and changes are undertaken.

The Trump administration tasked the Department of Government Efficiency with curbing "waste, fraud and abuse" at federal ...