Americans are getting older, but not this old: Social Security records show that 6.5 million people in the U.S. have reached the ripe old age of 112.

Public confusion around death records, 100-year-old data, and a minuscule number of real fraud cases have sparked a viral myth that tens of millions of dead people are collecting Social Security ...

-- The Social Security Administration (SSA) is defending its “highly accurate” death records in response to claims from President Donald Trump and Elon Musk that benefits are being issued to ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has provided an update on the accuracy of its death records. The SSA distributes billions of dollars in benefits each month to nearly 70 million recipients ...

Cleaning up Social Security’s death records in an effort to thwart fraud is a focus of the DOGE representatives embedded at the agency. Musk and President Donald Trump have implied without ...

Documenting Death -- The Certificate The U.S. started maintaining vital records in 1900 and by the mid-1930s all states were collecting mortality data.

Instead, those individuals "are people in our records with a Social Security number who do not have a date of death associated with their record," said Lee Dudek, the new acting Social Security ...

As can be verified through the Social Security Death Index , a database of death records created from the United States Social Security Administration's Death Master File Extract, the Social ...

A completed death certificate by the practitioner who attended to the deceased is required for legal purposes including probating estates, insurance claims, Social Security, veterans benefits and ...