The Latest Breaking News from Social Security

In an effort to limit fraudulent claims, recipients and applicants will no longer be able to verify their identity over the phone

Editorial: Reform of a flawed social security system is needed. But reducing payments to disabled claimants will only increase hardship

Sir Keir Starmer said failure to reform the system would be ‘morally bankrupt’ but his own backbenchers, unions and campaigners hit back

The Medicaid system has emerged as an early target of the Trump administration’s campaign to slash federal spending. A joint federal and state program, Medicaid provides health insurance coverage for more than 72 million people, including low-income Americans and their children and people with disabilities. It also helps foot the…

Terms like "vampires," "fraud," "scam" and "definitely dead" are how the DOGE leader demonizes elderly people

An 82-year-old Seattle man had over $5,000 in benefits withdrawn from his account after the Social Security Administration erroneously declared him dead.

Social security minister Sir Stephen Timms told the Commons that he is ‘sad’ about the worries people have expressed.

The Work and Pensions Secretary – who is expected to lay out her plans on Tuesday – told MPs that reforms would be published ‘imminently’.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the Trump administration wants to eliminate income taxes for those making $150,000 or less—an unprecedented shift with major consequences.