The Social Security Administration is setting the record straight about the accuracy of its Death Master File. The agency says that less than one-third of one percent of all reported deaths need ...

Wrongful inclusion in the Social Security death master file can have devastating consequences. Learn what this database is, how it's being used in unprecedented ways by the second Trump ...

Sources including family members, funeral homes, financial institutions, and more report deaths in the U.S. to Social Security, which the agency records in the so-called death master file database ...

The Social Security Administration is expanding its master death list in ways that are likely to have a considerable impact on banks and lenders. The SSA has added 6,300 people who had temporary legal ...

Earlier this month, the Trump administration escalated its assault on immigrants’ rights by reporting living people as “dead” in the Social Security Administration’s death master file ...

Once on the Ineligibility Master List, a person’s Social Security number or Tax Identification Number is revoked, barring them from collecting certain benefits.

The Social Security Administration reportedly added 6,300 people—including minors—to its “death master file” who are not, in fact, dead, and had legal immigration status before Trump ...

It is believed to be from the SSA's Death Master File, which is a list of people used to help government agencies and private companies know when Social Security numbers are no longer valid for use.

The Social Security Administration reportedly classified more than 6,000 living immigrants as dead under a directive by the Trump administration last week.

The next day, 6,100 mostly Hispanic names and their attached Social Security numbers were added to the Death Master File, according to records reviewed by The Post.

Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people ...

The Times reviewed documents that included the names of the 6,300 migrants who were moved to the list at the urging of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Once on the Ineligibility Master ...