After this year’s staffing cuts, some people wait for hours, others sail through. But overburdened field office workers carry ...

The Social Security Administration said you should never laminate your physical Social Security card. Doing so can prevent ...

More than 70 million Americans rely on Social Security benefits and are vulnerable to scams threatening their monthly ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has issued a new reminder about a major update that will begin affecting more than half a million beneficiaries in a matter of days.

Social Security Numbers (SSN) were created in 1936 to track the earnings of U.S. workers. This information was used to determine Social Security benefits. Today, nearly every legal resident of the U.S ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A Guatemalan woman was sentenced after using a fraudulent social security card to gain employment in the United States. 35-year-old Cindy Santos-Perez, a citizen of ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has announced that digital Social Security cards will be available starting this summer. Americans can access their Social Security number (SSN) online by ...

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Keir Starmer announced mandatory digital ID cards today. We should fight them or surrender yet another freedom, writes Paul ...

The Social Security Number (SSN) is a critical component of your financial identity, linking you to employment, benefits, and taxes. Losing it can be distressing, but the Social Security ...

As students returned to school this week, WIRED spoke to a self-proclaimed leader of a violent online group known as “Purgatory” about a rash of swattings at universities across the US in recent days.

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