Elon Musk's cost-cutting operation, DOGE, set off a panic in March among elderly and disabled people after proposing that the Social Security Administration scraped many of its claims services over the phone to end alleged identity fraud.

The Social Security Administration scrapped the Department of Government Efficiency’s plans to stop providing service to recipients over the phone. Last month, DOGE proposed ending some of the Social Security Administration’s over-the-phone claims services to combat identity fraud,

Elon Musk’s war on fraud and abuse has impacted the Social Security Administration’s ability to distribute payments, according to a new report. In particular, frequent outages of the agency’s website in recent weeks have been linked to its expansion of fraud checks earlier in the claims process. From the Washington Post:

The Social Security Administration has backed off on its plans to make more older Americans travel to field offices when they apply for retirement benefits. The agency had planned to require anyone filing for benefits or changing bank account information to verify their identities in person instead of over the phone if they were unable to do so through the agency’s website.

Public outcry appears to have convinced the agency to abandon a plan that would have required in-person visits for some beneficiaries.

At the last minute, the Social Security Administration has announced it won’t be cutting phone services for seniors—a policy it had previously claimed would go into effect on Monday. Now, the agency has shifted its position,

By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services.

The Trump administration has moved to classify more than 6,000 living immigrants as dead, canceling their Social Security numbers and effectively wiping out their ability to work or receive benefits in an effort to get them to leave the country,

The Trump administration has reportedly classified over 6,000 living immigrants as deceased, effectively canceling their Social Security numbers to prompt them to leave the United States. According to sources familiar with the situation,

The Trump administration has moved to classify more than 6,000 living immigrants as dead, canceling their Social Security numbers and effectively wiping out their ability to work or receive benefits in an effort to get them to leave the country,

By putting migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the administration seeks to cut their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other services.

The move will make it much harder for those affected to use banks or other basic services where Social Security numbers are required.