When you lock your Social Security number, a company looking to verify your SSN won't be able to verify your identity, ...

The new scam presents itself as an official-looking letter identified as a “certificate” on fake U.S. Supreme Court ...

T he Social Security Administration (SSA) and its Office of the Inspector General (OIG) have raised the alarm about a new and sophisticated scam targeting retirees. This scheme primarily focuses on ...

The unsecured database also holds dates of birth, parents' names, and other personal information—and Russia, China, and Iran know about it, the report alleges.

Data breaches that expose the personal information of millions of people can have very real consequences for individuals, most notably: identity theft. A new study found that the more of a person’s ...

Charles Borges, chief data officer for the Social Security Administration (SSA), filed a complaint in late August claiming ...

Social Security is well-known as a supplemental retirement income program for Americans, but it also provides benefits to disabled workers, spouses and dependents. The numbers behind the Social ...

A report issued Thursday accuses the Department of Government Efficiency of putting millions of Americans’ personal ...

Charles Borges, the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, filed a complaint alleging that DOGE officials copied Social Security numbers for millions of Americans. Borges claimed in ...

Back in July, the Social Security Board of Trustees released their estimate for the 2026 COLA and beyond as part of their ...

An Aug. 1 analysis from the personal finance site GOBankingRates uses $1.5 million as the basis for a retirement-planning ...