Social Security is a cornerstone of retirement income for millions of Americans, but growing concerns about fraud are making ...

Senate Aging Committee Ranking Member Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY, and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-OR, are demanding answers about how Trump administration cuts and reorganizatio ...

Rep. Lloyd Smucker, R-Pa., has introduced the Social Security Child Protection Act, which is aimed at safeguarding children from identity theft when their Social Security cards are lost or stolen.The ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – An East Weymouth woman has been charged with bank fraud in federal court in Boston for allegedly scheming to fraudulently obtain Social Security benefits. In a news release from the ...

A Bradford County man faces years in prison after admitting in federal court he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in his mother's benefits for almost two decades after she died. Richard Burke, 76 ...

A Pennsylvania man could spend up to a decade behind bars after admitting to defrauding the Social Security Administration (SSA) of more than $34,000. His case underscores not only the serious ...

Scammers want money, and they don't care whose money they take. That's why sometimes it can feel a bit painful when they target a more vulnerable group, such as those who live on a limited income.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A Waterloo woman has been sentenced to more than one year in federal prison for hiding her ineligibility for Social Security benefits for over two decades. Penny Linn Teel, 60, ...

More than 300 million Americans' Social Security records may have been put at risk after officials at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded sensitive information to a cloud account ...

An identity theft ring believed to be based in the Burbank area is using Social Security numbers from former foreign scholars ...