Current and former employees, both Republican and Democratic, are raising alarms about the damage cost-cutting efforts could do to the agency’s ability to serve the public.

DOGE announced that it's working with the Social Security Administration to clean up death records in the agency's database to ensure living numberholders get benefits.

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has said it has begun a "major cleanup" of records at the Social Security Agency. "For the past two weeks, @SocialSecurity has begun a major cleanup of their records.