Synthetic identity fraud, or Frankenstein fraud, is when someone steals an individual's Social Security number and combines it with information from other people's identities, such as a name ...

In 1983, the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset, which reduced Social Security payments for retired police officers, firefighters, postal workers and teachers ...

President Joe Biden issued an executive order on Thursday that could — if implemented by the incoming administration of Donald Trump — help banks and credit unions reduce fraud and financial ... calls ...

However, the Social Security system is in such a crisis that it seemed OK to deprive workers of their earned benefits. How about eliminating and using the $72 billion payments made improperly due to ...

The US government clawed back more than USD 31 million in Social Security payments that improperly went to dead ... saying it would “significantly reduce fraud, improve program integrity, and better ...

Masango said she suspected this kind of fraud was also prevalent across other categories of grants paid by the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA). "There needs to be a close working ...

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