Social Security agency to require in-person or online identity confirmation The new policy will officially begin on March 31, but the agency said it will carefully make the transition over the ...

Individuals who do not or cannot use the agency’s online “my Social Security” services to change their direct deposit information, can visit a local office to process the change or can call ...

The Social Security Administration is expected to begin enforcing new identity verification procedures for benefit claims and direct deposit changes starting March 31.

The Social Security Administration is eliminating phone-based service for changing direct-deposit account information, directing beneficiaries to make those updates online or in person at a field ...

Approximately 40 percent of Social Security direct deposit fraud is associated with someone calling SSA to change direct deposit bank information.

A 2019 report by Social Security’s inspector general found there were 20,658 cases of direct deposit fraud committed through the agency’s online portal between 2013 and 2017, but there doesn ...

Only a small group of people get their Social Security payments by paper check, but that's set to end. What you should know about direct deposit.