The Social Security Administration (SSA) reiterated its plans to walk back proposed cuts to its phone services, saying it would be implementing an “anti-fraud check.” “Beginning on April 14 ...

The Social Security Administration walked back plans to reduce over-the-phone services ... after the agency unveiled "stronger identity verification procedures," that officials said would require ...

The Social Security ... by phone. DOGE's retreat presents a public relations setback for Elon Musk and the Trump administration. While the proposal did not involve cutting benefits, it played into the ...

The new system would have removed a phone option, in place for years, which has come to be a mainstay for the 73 million Americans who rely on Social Security ... verification idea was dead. “So ...

begun offering staff buyouts and early retirements and gone back and forth on various new processes, including those for identity verification and for applying for Social Security numbers for ...

President Trump announced new identity verification requirements for Social Security applicants and beneficiaries. He largely walked back these changes, which would have made it impossible to ...

The Social Security Administration recently walked back plans to have recipients make in-person visits in order to finalize claims made over the phone.

The Social Security Administration scrapped the Department of Government Efficiency’s plans to stop providing service to recipients over the phone ... DOGE was pursuing cuts to popular programs ...