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

A Musk-backed fraud policy at SSA caused chaos and delays with little fraud prevention success. Here's what went wrong.

SSA’s fraud-prevention phone policy, backed by DOGE and Elon Musk’s team, caused major delays and few results, drawing ...

Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only two claims out of over 110,000 were found to ...

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

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

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

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

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

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has walked back a key element of a recently introduced anti-fraud measure that sparked widespread criticism from senior citizens and advoca ...

The phone fraud data at the Social Security Administration (SSA) presented by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency ...

After installing anti-fraud checks for benefit claims made over the phone early last month, the Social Security Administration is considering walking back the policy after finding only two cases ...