"There's just going to be a lot of people who are not able to complete this process," one of the study's co-authors told Newsweek.

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 ...

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

The uproar stoked by DOGE over alleged dead beneficiaries cast new attention on problems previously highlighted in audits by the Social Security inspector general’s office — which, as its ...

Her order, however, allows the DOGE affiliates to access Social Security data that is redacted ... The silence on this issue is deafening.” ...

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.

Just two months into President Donald Trump’s administration, those predictions are being proved right: There are signs that DOGE is already breaking Social Security. The Washington Post ...

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 ...

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 […] ...

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 ...