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Editorial: Reform of a flawed social security system is needed. But reducing payments to disabled claimants will only increase hardship

An estimated 75,000 and 85,000 recipients would be sent to field offices every week

While the move could potentially protect against fraud, it could also cause long wait times and mass disruption.

‘I earned those benefits as well as my fellow veterans —I watched my friends die in war, I bled for my country,’ the veteran said

An internal memo from the Social Security Administration proposed changes to its phone services as Musk's DOGE touts at slashing the agency's funding.

Sir Keir Starmer said failure to reform the system would be ‘morally bankrupt’ but his own backbenchers, unions and campaigners hit back

The Medicaid system has emerged as an early target of the Trump administration’s campaign to slash federal spending. A joint federal and state program, Medicaid provides health insurance coverage for more than 72 million people, including low-income Americans and their children and people with disabilities. It also helps foot the…

Terms like "vampires," "fraud," "scam" and "definitely dead" are how the DOGE leader demonizes elderly people

An 82-year-old Seattle man had over $5,000 in benefits withdrawn from his account after the Social Security Administration erroneously declared him dead.

Social security minister Sir Stephen Timms told the Commons that he is ‘sad’ about the worries people have expressed.

The Work and Pensions Secretary – who is expected to lay out her plans on Tuesday – told MPs that reforms would be published ‘imminently’.