The Social Security Fairness Act, which was signed into law in January, extended Social Security benefits to federal ...

First, the question about filing a late return. A reader wanted to confirm that there are no penalties for filing a late ...

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

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

River woman who pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $90,000 in Social Security benefits intended for her child has been ...

Claims of widespread fraud in Social Security were misleading, with fraud representing just 0.00625% of the annual budget, ...

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency wants to combine your Social Security number into a massive multi-agency federal database, which could violate current law and disrupt ...

AARP’s Fraud Watch Network helps teach older adults how to spot scams. We organize events and education, with hundreds of ...

SIM swapping is when fraudsters take control of a consumer’s phone account and request a SIM swap through identity theft or ...

In a world with too much noise and too little context, Vox helps you make sense of the news. We don’t flood you with ...

Last year, the FBI unraveled one of the largest digital fraud cases in U.S. history, in which cyber criminals from around the ...

The U.S. government loses hundreds of billions to fraud each year, with criminals using stolen identities to make ...