The Social Security Administration (SSA) is struggling with a massive backlog of nearly 600,000 retirement claims, affecting ...

Many challenges face the SSA, including more retirees from the Baby Boomer generation, new laws expanding benefit eligibility ...

Social Security in the United States is set to reach an unprecedented milestone: for the first time in its nearly 90-year ...

Sweeney said Congress needs to address some of the challenges facing the SSA, including its funding ... found that to fully address the excess backlog in claims and wait times, additional funding ...

The rising backlog of improper payments highlights an increasingly urgent issue for the SSA. As retirees ... exacerbating the financial challenges facing the program. The longer these errors ...

SSA's backlog has already increased in recent months ... publishing Social Security challenges and actions taken online, and increasing the amount of detail shared with the public on wait times.

Both SSA as well as a GVRA spokesperson at the time pointed to staffing challenges across the country as the reason for the extensive backlog. In a prior statement to 11Alive, the GVRA said ...

(NEXSTAR) – The Social Security Administration (SSA) is wrestling with a “record-breaking backlog” of cases that has led to roughly $1.1 billion in improper payments, according to a new ...

In an especially absurd twist, even death didn’t remove one of those women from Social Security’s backlog. The woman had a child who might receive the woman’s disability benefits post-mortem.