Commissioner of Social Security
4 stories from The GOP Files, newest first. Last in the news Oct 25.
Eleven days before the midterm, the Social Security Administration called fiscal 2026 its best year ever. The phone number it highlights is the same measure the agency's inspector general found leaves out callback waits, and the claim comes after the agency lost thousands of workers.
On Oct. 22, less than two weeks before Election Day, the Social Security Administration sent beneficiaries an email praising President Trump and the new 'Trump Accounts' for children. In July, five Democratic senators had told the agency's chief to stop sending messages like this.
The Social Security Administration says it has corrected nearly 15% of active Social Security numbers, adding death dates and citizenship status. Seniors' advocates warn that the immigration database it relied on has flagged real citizens as noncitizens, and that those errors could now sit in the files that pay benefits.
The Social Security Administration says it has changed records tied to nearly 15% of active Social Security numbers, using a Homeland Security citizenship tool the Supreme Court is letting states use, for now, to check voter rolls. The agency has not said whether any of the changes affected anyone's benefits.
