Spurred by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, the Social Security Administration is combing through its ...

Recent claims of dead people collecting Social Security have caused public confusion. Here’s how Social Security’s death ...

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has issued a new update on its "major cleanup" of death records at the Social Security Administration (SSA). Newsweek has contacted DOGE for comment via ...

Up to 4 million Social Security recipients have been ... When the SSA corrects your record, you'll be sent an "Erroneous Death Case -- Third Party Contact" notice that you can present to banks ...

"We have to go through this long process to resurrect them, to get them back as alive," an SSA staff member said.

The immigrants who have requested a reversal and been reinstated in Social Security databases include a Haitian asylum seeker ...

It all comes back to the death master file that the ... original form of identification. Social Security takes immediate action to correct its records, and the agency can provide a letter that ...

They’re not really dead, of course. In four instances over the past few weeks, he told KFF Health News, his Schenectady, New York, office has seen people come in for whom “there is no information on ...

Elon Musk’s team has moved millions of Social Security numbers into the agency’s deaths database, potentially raising the ...

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

Aliss Higham is a Newsweek reporter based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her focus is reporting on Social Security, other government benefits and personal finance. She has previously extensively covered U ...

As of Friday, the database is still named the “Death Master File” in Social Security’s internal systems, per records obtained by The Post, and referred to by the same name on the agency’s ...