The first round of July’s Social Security payments, worth up to $5,108 for the highest-income earners who retire at age 70, ...

Regular payments will continue on their standard schedule throughout July 2025. However, recipients who received overpayment ...

The Social Security Administration, which overpays billions in benefits annually, will start withholding some benefits sent ...

Millions of Social Security beneficiaries are expected to see smaller monthly payments beginning in July 2025, due to newly ...

This month, the Social Security Administration will begin withholding 50% of monthly checks from beneficiaries who received ...

If you overpaid and will have your benefits cut, you should have received a notice on April 25, 2025, stating that 50% of ...

Millions of Americans relying on Social Security benefits may soon face reduced payments, as the Social Security ...

In all, about 10 percent of the payments made under the agency's Supplemental Security Income program were improper, said Patrick P. O'Carroll Jr., the Social Security inspector general.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has said it is dealing with a "record-breaking backlog" of cases that has caused more than $1 billion in improper payments.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is wrestling with a "record-breaking backlog" of cases that has led to roughly $1.1 billion in improper payments, according to a new report by the SSA ...

The Social Security Administration’s Office of the Inspector General found that the average processing time of the improper payment cases was 698 days. Had the pending cases been resolved ...

A July 2024 report from Social Security’s inspector general states that from fiscal years 2015 through 2022, the agency paid out almost $8.6 trillion in benefits, including $71.8 billion — or ...