Swimming Social Security Administration Origin of the Site’s Portal Departure

WASHINGTON – The Social Security Administration He said on Tuesday that he is investigating the main cause of web site interruptions that affected the “social security” portal in which the beneficiaries access their benefits.

In particular, people who receive additional security revenues, including older people with disabilities and adults and children with low incomes, reported that they received a notification that they said “do not receive benefits”. The agency said the notification was a mistake.

Approximate 7.4 million seniors, adults and children Receive SSI benefits, according to an internal report 2023. It is not clear how many people have received the wrong message on their portal.

In a statement, the Agency acknowledged “a few recent incidents” that affected social security and said they were being investigated. The agency said that, during the short disturbances, which registered an average of about 20 minutes each, the Social Security Administration site remained operational, although some people could have a problem that is in their “social security” account.

The site has collapsed several times in recent weeks. They come as a Social Security Administration, under the leadership of the Interim Commissioner, Leland Dudek, performs a major review of the operations in the effort to move on the alleged fraud, which the president Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s The request for efficiency of the Government Department is widespread.

Changes include mass employees’ layoffs and staff reduction, new limits to recipient’s telephone line access and closing offices throughout the country. They aroused furore Among the parliamentarians, the advocacy groups and the beneficiaries of the program, who say that the Trump administration puts unnecessary barriers in the face of an already vulnerable population.

Most recently, the agency partially back On a plan that would ask all new and existing beneficiaries to travel to a social security office office to check their identity.

The Social Security Administration said in March that people requesting insurance for social security, medicine or additional security income who are not able to use the online portal of the agency can complete their request on the phone instead of the person. Other SSA applicants will still be forced to check their identities at a field office. Changes begin April 14.

In addition, a The process that challenges Doge access is in progress in the federal court. On March 20, Maryland’s federal judge, Ellen Lipton Hollander, issued a Doge access order from Social Security Trove and said that the Doge team “is essentially engaged in a SSA fishing expedition, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on a little more than suspicion.”

About 72.5 million people, including pensioners and children, receive social security benefits.