Employees at the Social Security Administration told USA Today that thousands of Americans could see delays or stopped checks ...

Social Security employees fear that adding complicated unpaid pension claims to their priority list will push routine needs ...

T he Social Security Administration (SSA) employees are warning that routine services may face delays as they prioritize ...

The message states they currently expect that order to end July 1, and instructs the employee to inform callers that they cannot help with other issues until then. More: Social Security wait times ...

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 ...

In the coming weeks, thousands of Social Security beneficiaries—including retirees, individuals with disabilities, and ...

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 ...

He noted that the agency is receiving a record number of claims this year for several reasons, including the peak wave of Baby Boomers hitting retirement age and a law passed by Congress that beefed ...

The agency is abandoning an initiative aimed at preventing fraud, the latest example of a failed effort by Elon Musk’s ...