Social Security Makes Major Update to Prevent Fraud
Summary
The Social Security Administration (SSA) updated millions of Social Security Number (SSN) records to prevent fraud and mistakes in government payments. This is the biggest cleanup in SSA's history, fixing wrong or missing information like death dates and citizenship status for many Americans.Key Facts
- The SSA corrected tens of millions of SSN records, including adding 17 million missing death dates.
- About 25 million records were updated to include missing citizenship information.
- The SSA is working on fixing another 8.5 million records with incorrect citizenship data.
- Nearly 15 percent of active Social Security numbers were corrected, covering about 330 million U.S. citizens.
- Updates help prevent fraud and ensure government benefits go to the right people.
- Stronger controls are now in place to avoid errors from manual data entry.
- Between 2015 and 2022, SSA paid $8.6 trillion in benefits, with less than 1 percent being improper payments, which are often errors, not fraud.
- The cleanup aims to improve record accuracy which supports federal programs and identity verification.
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