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Social Security’s new commissioner, rule reversals and cost cuts: Here’s everything that’s happening at the agency
The Social Security Administration is about to get a new commissioner, but that’s only the latest of a series of changes at ...
How DOGE will impact Social Security now that Elon Musk has left
Under DOGE's instruction, the SSA made significant changes, including a 7,000-job workforce reduction and a new anti-fraud ...
Social Security Boss Reveals His DOGE Plans Are Just Getting Started Despite Musk’s Exit
Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano said in a recent interview that he plans to use the engineers Musk brought in ...
Supreme Court restores DOGE’s access to sensitive Social Security data and says it doesn’t have to turn over documents
The Supreme Court handed the Department of Government Efficiency a pair of significant wins on Friday, allowing the entity to ...
Supreme Court allows DOGE staffers to access Social Security data
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing members of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency to access ...
91% of Social Security Fairness Act benefit increases, lump sum payments have been processed, agency says
A new law provides higher Social Security benefits and retroactive lump-sum payments for nearly 3 million people. Here’s the ...
Social Security Fairness Act big update given on expanded benefits. Here's how it will impact millions of Americans
The Social Security Administration is processing expanded benefits under the Social Security Fairness Act. The Act removes ...
EXCLUSIVE: Social Security Fraud Just Tip Of The Iceberg, Trump’s New Commissioner Says
Commissioner Frank Bisignano said Social Security numbers are vulnerable to exploitation and fraud across multiple government agencies, from the DMV to Medicare. The former Wall Street executive, ...
Social Security plans to add artificial intelligence to phone systems, commissioner says
The Social Security Administration gets about 390,000 calls per day, and the average wait time for those calls as of April ...
Trump's Social Security Commissioner Admits He Googled the Job: Report
President Donald Trump 's head of the Social Security Administration (SSA), Frank Bisignano, admitted in a town hall with ...
Social security employees warn of delays: What the new priorities means for your benefits
Social Security employees fear that adding complicated unpaid pension claims to their priority list will push routine needs ...
New head of Social Security, hired from Wall Street, tells staff he had to Google the job when he was offered it
Newly sworn-in Social Security chief Frank Bisignano, who previously was a Wall Street executive, told staffers he had to Google the SSA job when it was offered to him.