Social Security's workforce reductions are causing months-long delays for new benefit applications and simple record updates.

DOGE reforms under Trump cut SSA staff, closed offices, and tightened overpayment rules, making it harder for vulnerable ...

America’s retirement security has hit its “breaking point” and is “entering its most precarious moment in decades." ...

The latest draft of the GOP’s plan to cut federal spending to pay for tax cuts and increased immigration enforcement no ...

The agency currently has a backlog of approximately 575,000 applications thanks to a prior policy involved in the application ...

A second amendment came on April 14, when the SSA announced that anyone wishing to apply for Social Security or make account ...