RosaCarranza has lived, worked and paid taxes in the U.S. legally for more than 30 years. She emigrated from El Salvador in 1991; in 2001, she received Temporary Protected Status.

In the last survey I did, I asked my readers to rate the service they got from the Social Security Administration in the form of stars: 5 stars for excellent service, down to 1 star for poor ...

Supplemental Security Income went out on April 1, while most other forms of payments are based on birthdays. The only exception is for those who received Social Security before May 1997 or those ...

It's important to send the completed forms to your local Social Security office. For any questions, you can contact the SSA toll-free at 1-800-772-1213, Monday through Friday, from 7:00 a.m. to 7: ...

A person can inform the SSA of a person’s death by contacting them via phone at 800-772-1213 (TTY: 800-325-0778) or visiting the nearest Social Security office. It is not possible to report a ...

That means checks are slated to go out as scheduled. So when can you expect them? Payment schedule for April. Supplemental Security Income was slated to go out on April 1, while most other forms ...

The Social Security Administration did not immediately reply to WIRED’s request for comment. SSA has been under increasing scrutiny from President Donald Trump’s administration.

Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

Comparatively, privatized Social Security would transfer the management of the funds to the private sector, with potentially some form of partial government funding or guarantees.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Monday said that it has been working to clean up millions of records in the Social Security Administration's (SSA) databases by marking ...

How to inform Social Security of a death. Funeral homes generally inform SSA of someone's death, so family members don't typically need to do so.