Starting March 31, benefit claimants will no longer have the option to verify their identity with the SSA over the phone.

If you're on Social Security, you're probably used to small changes to the size of your benefit checks every year due to cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs). But major changes to those benefits are pretty rare.

As Trump and Musk target Social Security, the administration says it will cut off whole checks to seniors who receive an accidental overpayment