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US Rep. Lois Frankel town hall spotlights growing Social Security backlog, wait times
Lois Frankel's virtual town hall meeting details Democrats' resistance to Trump agenda with urgings for voters to keep up the ...
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575,000 Claims Backlogged—Why the SSA Just Dropped Its Fraud Delay Rule
The Social Security Administration (SSA) recently reversed a highly debated anti-fraud policy that delayed retirement benefit ...
How DOGE’s grand plan to remake Social Security is backfiring
The agency is abandoning an initiative aimed at preventing fraud, the latest example of a failed effort by Elon Musk’s ...
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Social Security drops controversial anti-fraud review amid growing claims backlog
The backlog began increasing swiftly last fall, shooting up from fewer than 350,000 pending claims in September to nearly 600,000 pending claims in April, according to Social Security data posted ...
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US Rep. Lois Frankel town hall spotlights growing Social Security backlog, wait times
Rep. Lois Frankel held a virtual town hall meeting to discuss the backlog of Social Security claims and other issues. Frankel attributed the backlog, which has increased by 72% from seven months ...