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

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

Workers become eligible for retirement benefits at age 62, and some cash-constrained beneficiaries have little choice but to ...

DOGE reforms under Trump cut SSA staff, closed offices, and tightened overpayment rules, making it harder for vulnerable ...

A foundational change to Social Security presented by President Trump would fundamentally weaken the program's financial ...

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

Controversial changes at the Social Security Administration ramped up worries from Yahoo Finance readers. Here are some of ...

The agency is abandoning an initiative aimed at preventing fraud, the latest example of a failed effort by Elon Musk’s ...

The GOP proposes a temporary $4,000 tax deduction for seniors, shifting from earlier promises to end Social Security taxes as ...

Staff cuts, stricter repayment rules, and office closures are straining Social Security. Here's how the Elon Musk-led DOGE ...

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says that Social Security has a payment accuracy rate of over 99%, and that only 0 ...

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