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 ...

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.

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 ...

Projections indicate that, in less than two years, there will be a staggering 2.5 million people in Social Security’s disability backlog. That figure is higher than the population of 20 U.S ...

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 ...