Recent claims of dead people collecting Social Security have caused public confusion. Here’s how Social Security’s death ...

"We have to go through this long process to resurrect them, to get them back as alive," an SSA staff member said.

Auditors have recommended that the Social Security Administration update its death records since at least 2015.

The immigrants who have requested a reversal and been reinstated in Social Security databases include a Haitian asylum seeker ...

It might be harder than you think to prove to the government you're still alive. The issue has come front and center amid ...

but the death certificate is arguably the most important legal document in existence. It's the only legal proof that someone has died. The State uses it to stop social security payments ...

A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office and put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s ...

As of Friday, the database is still named the “Death Master File” in Social Security’s internal systems, per records obtained by The Post, and referred to by the same name on the agency’s ...