Social Security fraud can involve people lying to the federal government on their application forms, or taking checks from an elderly family member who isn't capable of managing their own money.

Put another way, only 0.00625 percent of Social Security benefits are lost to direct-deposit fraud, with 0.0025 percent (40 percent) via Social Security’s 800 number.

For example, investigators say Redmond personally visited the SSA office on June 4, 2024, posing as her deceased mother, and submitted a fraudulent SS-5 Application for Social Security using her ...

The Social Security Administration is set to implement on Monday new anti-fraud measures that have sparked widespread concern and confusion, heightened by the agency’s repeated changes to one of ...

Already, Social Security is operating at a decades-low staffing level, even though the number of people applying for and receiving benefits has ballooned as the Baby Boom generation enters retirement.

For example, investigators say Redmond personally visited the SSA office on June 4, 2024, posing as her deceased mother, and submitted a fraudulent SS-5 Application for Social Security using her ...