The database includes millions of Americans who are probably dead but who have no death records. But they generally don’t ...

The United States is home to approximately 86,000 centenarians, as reported by the Census Bureau. These individuals, aged 100 ...

"Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security," tech billionaire Elon Musk said on X.

Elon Musk appeared at an Oval Office event to discuss the findings of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency.

Many readers have been emailing me asking for my help in understanding the allegations made by Elon Musk and his Department ...

Roughly 18.4 million Americans with Social Security numbers in a master database had not received benefits or reported income ...

The Social Security Administration has imposed a new restriction refusing to amend the sex field on a person's records.

He misinterpreted data from SSA's Numident database, which includes outdated records. Actual Social Security fraud is minimal, with issues more related to overpayments to living recipients.

We introduce the Berkeley Unified Numident Mortality Database (BUNMD), a cleaned and harmonized version of these records. This publicly available dataset provides researchers access to over 49 million ...

While an audit published in 2023 found that the central Social Security database, known as the Numident, does include 18.9 million people born before 1920 who do not have death information on record — ...