As billionaire Trump advisor Elon Musk continues to fire staff, cancel contracts, and eliminate office leases across the ...

Responding to the president’s request that he become “more aggressive” in sizing down the federal government, Musk wrote in a ...

Elon Musk has said that Social Security benefits could increase as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues ...

Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce ...

It is dubious that Elon Musk and his team have uncovered serious fraud at the Social Security Administration, Bloomberg ...

Government computer systems are full of legacy quirks, and upgrading and updating them is a huge and often-fraught endeavor.

Elon Musk falsely claimed there were tens of millions of people aged 100-159 still receiving Social Security benefits.

It is true that improper payments have been made—including some to dead people—but the claims thrown out by Elon Musk and ...

The Trump administration claimed the Social Security Administration gives payments to dead people. SSA audits revealed it ...

Ronald Gunia, a retired longtime director in the Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General who worked on the 2015 and 2023 reports, said that incomplete data can increase chances for ...

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are falsely implying that millions of dead Americans are receiving Social Security ...

Overpayments can be both costly to the government and to the beneficiaries who face aggressive efforts to claw back the funds ...