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

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has provided an update regarding the "major cleanup" of death records the government spending task force is conducting at the Social Security ...

By Russell Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Association of Mature ...

Chief Justice John Roberts has granted the Department of Government Efficiency temporary relief from having to disclose ...

“The sole mission of DOGE is to identify waste ... this week meant to coordinate their messaging on the issue and plan events. Social Security also featured prominently in Tuesday’s ...

The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon, asking the justices to pause a preliminary injunction issued by a federal judge in Maryland that temporarily bars members […] ...

When Mike Russo entered Social Security Administration ... attorneys could not explain why DOGE even needed the data. “The silence on this issue is deafening,” Hollander wrote in her order.

There are known issues with false matches when just ... It's also not clear if the DOGE effort to combine Social Security data with other sources inside and outside the federal government runs ...

Since 1935, the Social Security Administration has provided the American people financial protection for millions of citizens, created on the promise that the most vulnerable people in our society ...

"T]he issue here is not the work that DOGE ... But the legal battle over DOGE's access to Social Security data is the first directly involving the cost-cutting task force to land before the ...

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 ...