The Social Security Administration said it's backtracking from a requirement that would have forced some elderly and disabled people to visit agency offices in person to verify their identities ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amid a wave of changes to Social Security, it's perhaps more important than ever to know where to look for updates from the federal agency running it. While the Social Security Administration has ...

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 ...

Finance. Social Security implements new identity checks starting today: How will this affect you? Finance. If WEP is reducing your benefits, what to do now that the Social Security Fairness Act is ...

The Social Security Administration is introducing a new chatbot for employees powered by generative artificial intelligence, according to an internal email obtained by Nextgov/FCW. “ ...

The SSA is shaking things up under the new administration. The agency is changing certain key rules that affect retirees. One proposal -- to eliminate taxes on benefits -- could backfire.

A draft plan for service delivery at the Social Security Administration includes “field office consolidation” as a goal for next year — even as the agency maintains publicly that it isn’t ...

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is cutting public affairs staffers at the Social Security Administration’s regional offices and will move its communications to Elon Musk’s X ...

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 ...