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Some are receiving higher Social Security benefits this month. Here's who.
The increase stems from the passage of the Social Security Fairness Act, which lifted reductions on 3.2 million public sector ...
Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label
The immigrants who have requested a reversal and been reinstated in Social Security databases include a Haitian asylum seeker ...
Police-social work partnership could grow with state funding
A bill would create a social work and law enforcement institute, to grow what one officer called a 'holistic approach to law ...
Federal judge in Baltimore temporarily limits DOGE access to Social Security data
A federal judge has imposed new restrictions on the Department of Government Efficiency’s access to Social Security systems ...
Federal judge temporarily restricts DOGE access to personalized Social Security data
An Obama-appointed judge in Baltimore issued a preliminary injunction Thursday restricting the Department of Government ...
Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead
A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office and put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s ...
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New DOJ Social Media Policy Raises Concerns Over Free Speech
The Trump administration's new directive prohibits U.S. Justice Department employees from sharing work-related content on ...
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Judge orders new limits on DOGE data access at Social Security Administration
A federal judge in Maryland granted a preliminary injunction that bars DOGE staffers from accessing non-anonymized personal ...
Hiltzik: Trump's Kafkaesque attack on Social Security: Declaring living people as dead
Trump administration declared 6,300 living people to be dead, in a dystopian attack on Social Security. 'If they can do this ...
In a federal workforce racked by stress and fear, one family shares a story of death
Stress and anxiety had been building for weeks in Monique Lockett, a 25-year veteran of the Social Security Administration, about the fate of her colleagues and the sensitive agency data she had vowed ...
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GE2025: Workers' Party calls for GST exemptions, minimum wage and wealth tax in wide-ranging manifesto
Among 125 policy proposals were also suggestions to abolish the office of Mayor, repeal the Internal Security Act and ...
Social Security rule-reversals, office closures, cost cuts: here's what's happening now.
A day after it announced the elimination of the Office of Transformation, the SSA said it was closing the Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity and that it would reassign the office's tasks - ...