The U.S. Treasury Department stopped nearly $100 million in federal payments that have been going out to deceased individuals after establishing a government-wide payment verification process last year.
Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner and IRS CEO Frank Bisignano said Tuesday that he and other government officials will continue “to drive out fraud, waste, and abuse” after uncovering nearly $100 million in federal payments associated with dead people.
Congress has passed a bill that would stop payments from going to deceased people, said a celebrating Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA). In a video posted on X, Kennedy explained that the Social Security Administration (SSA) “maintains a list of dead
Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano declared Friday that raising the Social Security retirement age is “not under consideration” and that he and President Donald Trump are committed to protecting the program.
President Donald Trump is touting a range of the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) accomplishments that have strengthened the SSA as a whole since his return to office.
An Ohio lawmaker says his investigation into the state’s Medicaid program found failures in verifying enrollee eligibility, potentially resulting in over $6 billion in wasteful taxpayer spending.
The Trump administration is doing a massive sweep of Social Security Numbers to mark as “deceased” those who are 120 years old and above — a move it says is part of its greater mission to root out waste, fraud, and abuse from the federal government.
The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been placed under updated restrictions, per a recent decision by U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander in Baltimore.
Government bureaucrats tried to stop President Donald Trump’s administration from canceling Social Security benefits for illegal aliens, including those who were released into the United States by former President Joe Biden, a report details.
President Donald Trump’s deputies are wiping up the Social Security Numbers that were given to illegal migrants by prior administrations.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has marked approximately 3.2 million Social Security number-holders for people aged 120 and older as “deceased” as part of ongoing efforts to root out fraud.
A top official at the Social Security Administration has stepped down after conflict with Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees, according to reports.
On Monday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) stated that he believes employees at the Social Security Administration need to come back to in-person work. Host Chris Cuomo asked, “[W]hat is your theory of the efficiency model there
President Joe Biden’s administration forced Social Security Administration (SSA) employees to complete a “mandatory” training that lectured employees on respecting their coworkers’ “sexual orientation,” and “gender identity,” The Sentinel reported.
Social Security recipients will receive an 8.7 percent increase in their monthly checks in 2023, the highest cost-of-living (COLA) adjustment in 40 years, as rampant inflation under the Biden administration continues to put financial pressure on American seniors.
Americans struggling to survive on federal benefits have waited weeks for word on their share of the $1.9 trillion stimulus.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) unveiled a proposal Thursday to provide a monthly cash benefit to families with children.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) proposed bipartisan legislation Thursday to “modernize” family and medical leave benefits for married couples that work for the employer.
An Inspector General report for the Social Security Administration reveals $11.6 million in payments were made to dead people in Puerto Rico.
One of the New York Time’s white-collar reporters joined with business executives to lament President Donald Trump’s pressure on employers to hire blue-collar Americans and pay them decent wages.
President Donald Trump’s administration has quietly reactivated a computer check that warns employers when their new employees are likely to be illegal immigrants.
“Melania” was among the top five baby names in rising popularity last year, the first year of Melania Trump’s time as first lady of the United States.
Andres Avelino Anduaga, an illegal alien from Mexico previously arrested on gun, drug, and forgery charges, pleaded guilty Thursday to theft of public property and being a removed alien found in United States.
A North Texas woman faces charges for allegedly sending three separate explosive devices to then-President Barack Obama, Governor Greg Abbott, and the Social Security Administration in late 2016.
Millions of Social Security recipients will be receiving fatter checks from the government starting in 2018.
Vice-Chairman Kris Kobach of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, who is also Secretary of State for Kansas, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss voter fraud and border security.
Caitlyn is no Emma, Olivia, or Eva.
West Virginia Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin told Breitbart News he is voting to overturn the Social Security Administration practice of reporting benefit recipients to the National Instant Criminal Check System, the no-buy database for firearm purchases, without a court order or ruling declaring the individual a danger to themselves or others.
On Monday the Obama administration finalized a Social Security gun ban that could prevent “tens of thousands” of law-abiding elderly citizens from purchasing guns for self-defense.
On June 7, Gun Owners of America (GOA) released a statement alerting Americans that Obama is taking your grandpa’s guns.
The Social Security Administration (SSA)has released details on the looming gun ban which was first discovered at it was being fashioned behind closed doors in July 2015.
The number of babies born in the U.S. and named Muhammad or some variant has been on the rise for the past several decades, according to a Center for Immigration Studies analysis of Social Security Administration name data.
In an report released this week, the SSA’s Office of the Inspector General looked at a sample of 1,532 disability beneficiaries’ — on Disability Insurance (DI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) — pay status from October 2003 to February 2014 and found overpayments for 44.5 percent of their sample.
The Social Security Administration paid out $20.2 million in benefits to individuals suspected or known to have participated in Nazi persecution during World War II, according to a review from the Social Security Administration’s Office of the Inspector General.
“It’s unacceptable that the federal government spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year in improper payments to deceased people,” Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-IL) says.
A recent SSA Inspector General audit estimates that the agency has paid out some $17.1 million in benefits to at least 740 dead people. In one case, a Connecticut man has been convicted of defrauding the program for a quarter century.
An audit conducted by the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) inspector general finds that thousands of social security numbers of people who are long deceased were used by illegal immigrants to apply for work, and some numbers were also used to open bank accounts.
