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Minnesota woman stole $360K from Social Security by passing as her dead mother — does this prove Elon right?
Mavious Redmond of Austin, Minnesota, has pleaded guilty to theft of government funds after more than 25 years of ...
Help! My son’s Social Security number was stolen. Now he has a fake W-2.
First, the question about filing a late return. A reader wanted to confirm that there are no penalties for filing a late ...
Social Security reminds workers about ‘resurrecting’ people wrongly declared dead
Spurred by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, the Social Security Administration is combing through its ...
This Minnesota woman stole $360K from Social Security by pretending to be her dead mother for ‘literal decades’ — does this prove Elon Musk is correct about wide…
Claims of widespread fraud in Social Security were misleading, with fraud representing just 0.00625% of the annual budget, ...
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AARP Backs Effort to Improve SSA's Assistance for Identity Fraud Victims
AARP’s Fraud Watch Network helps teach older adults how to spot scams. We organize events and education, with hundreds of ...
Are Dead People Collecting Social Security?
Recent claims of dead people collecting Social Security have caused public confusion. Here’s how Social Security’s death ...
Trump brings DOGE fight over access to Social Security data to Supreme Court
President Donald Trump’s administration urged the Supreme Court on Friday to allow Elon Musk’s Department of Government ...
Fraud costing U.S. government hundreds of billions a year as crime rings use stolen identities
Last year, the FBI unraveled one of the largest digital fraud cases in U.S. history, in which cyber criminals from around the ...
Federal judge in Baltimore temporarily limits DOGE access to Social Security data
The injunction does allow DOGE staffers to access data that’s been redacted or stripped of anything personally identifiable.
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Elon Musk is creating Social Security waste, fraud and abuse
The truth is that there are always fraud cases under investigation. Musk hasn’t discovered anything new. The Social Security Administration has a robust set of systems in place to detect ...