Social Security Announces Plan to Check for Fraud

The Social Security Administration announced on Tuesday its plans to perform an “anti-fraud check” on claims filed by phone and walk-back services over the phone.

“Beginning on April 14,” the agency announced on X, the Social Security Administration “will perform an anti-fraud check on all claims filed over the telephone and flag claims that have fraud risk indicators.”

The announcement comes amid the Department of Government Efficiency’s findings of  alleged waste, fraud and abuse, such as noncitizens getting Social Security numbers and payments to accounts said to be “100, 200 and even 300 years old.”

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