Supporters cite a prosaic DOGE announcement as evidence that a Social Security problem that never existed has been fixed.

Monday is the start of Medicare Fraud Prevention Week, which aims to educate recipients so they don’t get scammed.

Mavious Redmond of Austin, Minnesota, has pleaded guilty to theft of government funds after more than 25 years of ...

A new policy may prompt nearly 2 million more beneficiaries to visit local Social Security offices every year. Those trips ...

Captain Gabriel Garcia, who has served with the department since 2007, is accused of fraudulently obtaining a 100% VA ...

Commissioner Frank Bisignano said Social Security numbers are vulnerable to exploitation and fraud across multiple government ...

The Social Security Administration's recent anti-fraud initiative, spurred by bold claims from the defunct Department of ...

Social Security fraud statistics can be difficult to pin down. Some are grouped inside a larger category that the Social Security Administration (SSA) calls “improper payments,” which includes ...

SSA Customer Experience The Social Security Administration is changing its policy of holding benefit claims made over the phone for three days to check for fraud, a protocol that was causing ...

Likely based on the exaggerated fraud figures, the SSA announced in March that it would phase out allowing people to make account changes or claims over the phone. That policy was scrapped a short ...

After installing anti-fraud checks for benefit claims made over the phone early last month, the Social Security Administration is considering walking back the policy after finding only two cases ...