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Social Security News & Articles
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73-Year-Old Man Guilty of Social Security Fraud, Identity Theft
August 28, 2009
A man was recently sentenced to one year in prison for posing as a dead man to receive social security benefits. James Barber, 73, claimed that he was Roy Gentry (a man who had died in 2000) in..
Social Security Checks to Shrink Next Year
August 21, 2009
Despite a federal law prohibiting it, Social Security checks, which are paid out to elderly Americans, will not rise with the growing inflation rate. Since automatic increases were adopted...
President to ‘Tackle’ Social Security after Health Care
August 14, 2009
The current talk among Congressmen and among citizens of the United States is President Barack Obama’s proposed overhaul of the federal healthcare system. His changes have sparked...
SSA Anticipates Surge in Benefits Claims
August 6, 2009
Officials in the Social Security Administration say that they expect a large increase in the number of American individuals who wish to claim disability benefits in the coming months...
Iowans Social Security Numbers Posted on Web Site
August 7, 2009
According to an article in the Des Moines Register, the social security numbers of more than 2,000 Iowans were posted on a Web site. The secretary of the state’s site accidentally...