I have a work record that goes back to 1989, when my mom helped me file my first tax return and listed my occupation at age ...

They are the Social Security number files. Internally (within the SSA), it is called the Numident file. This is a file of every Social Security number that has ever been issued and some ...

Elon Musk shared a chart on X purportedly showing more than 398 million eligible numbers in the Social Security database.

In a related but somewhat different audit that has been in the news lately, Ennis in 2023 also looked into the 18.9 million entries in the Social Security Administration’s “Numident” master ...

They are the Social Security number files. Internally (within the SSA), it is called the Numident file. This is a file of every Social Security number that has ever been issued and some corresponding ...

For more than a decade, Social Security’s inspector general has been on a quest to get dead people off the benefit rolls. The effort started before former corporate lawyer Gail Ennis took the ...

This is false. My Social Security number is in the Numident file, and if you have one, yours is, too. That doesn’t mean we’re receiving benefits. Ennis—who was, remember, a Trump appointee ...

Last year, it suddenly fell to me to manage the affairs of a couple of ailing and now deceased elderly people (my parents-in-law). As anyone who has been through this ordeal knows, it involves ...

Social Security’s inspector general reported that as of 2020 Social Security’s “Numident” file of each person issued a Social Security number contained 18.9 million entries for people born ...