The Numident file (not pictured) includes every Social Security number that has ever been issued and some corresponding data about the person to whom that number was issued. diatrezor / Getty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump, in a March 4, 2025, address to Congress, claimed millions of people purportedly over 100 ...

U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk claimed that improbably old people — including people "about 150 years old" and more than 220 years old — were "collecting Social ...

A US Senator is demanding answers after a Social Security Administration (SSA) employee who blew the whistle on DOGE dealings involuntarily resigned last month, citing workplace hostility in response ...

Frank Bisignano arrives to his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing to be commissioner of the Social Security Administration at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 25, 2025 in ...

An audit of the Social Security Administration found that about 6.5 million Social Security numbers assigned to people who would be 112 years old (and are likely deceased) did not have a date of death ...

The seal of the Social Security Administration outside the agency's headquarters in Woodlawn, Maryland, on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. Credit - Stefani Reynolds—Bloomberg/Getty Images The private ...

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 04: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) (R) and Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) preside over a hearing with Health and Human Services Secretary ...

The seal of the Social Security Administration outside the agency's headquarters in Woodlawn, Maryland, on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. The seal of the Social Security Administration outside the agency's ...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- For more than a decade, Social Security’s inspector general has been on a quest to get dead people off the benefit rolls. The effort started before former corporate lawyer Gail ...