Social Security corrects millions of records. Could your benefits be affected?
The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) said Tuesday that it has corrected millions of records associated with nearly 15% of active Social Security numbers (SSN), which it said was part of an effort to prevent fraud. The agency called it the "most comprehensive SSN record clean-up" in its 91-year history, and said it had added 17 million missing dates of death to its records and updated citizenship information for about 25 million records. It is also working to correct another 8.5 million records with inaccurate citizenship status and has introduced stronger internal controls to…
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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same SSA announcement about correcting millions of records to thwart fraud, with no conflicting facts.
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